US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 14 for "Using intermediate mappings to prevent data loss from ransomware" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,473, issued on April 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Using intermediate mappings to prevent data loss from ransomware" was invented by Eknath Venkataramani (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage driver for a storage space (e.g., hard disk volume) may use intermediate mappings for write, create, and delete requests to prevent data loss from ransomware. The storage driver receives a request to overwrite a data item (e.g., file or object) at a first location of a storage space and in response, writes data to a second location of the storage space. The storage driver also generates a write mapping tha...