ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,912, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for 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 including determining an incident, intercepting a file operation in a kernel mode based on the incident, determining file information associated with a file to be modified by the file operation, storing the file information in a persistent file ca...