ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,143, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for cloud-integrated persistent file protection in endpoint detection and response" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of persistent file protection integrate cloud-based backups with EDR file protection. Use of local persistent file cache (PFC) data with cloud-stored file segments, facilitates reconstruction of file states from multiple sources. File storage and retrieval eff...