US Patent Issued to Sotero on July 1 for "Autonomous machine learning methods for detecting and thwarting ransomware attacks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,440, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sotero Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Autonomous machine learning methods for detecting and thwarting ransomware attacks" was invented by Purandar Gururaj Das (Lexington, Mass.) and Shanthi Boppana (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory, processor-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, from a requestor compute device, a first request that references one of an electronic file or a data set stored in a memory. The processor monitors a plurality of subsequent requests originating from the requestor compute devi...