ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,511, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Ransomware mitigation device and method" was invented by Michael R. Kahn (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Christopher Poli (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for backing up data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving N data segments, the N of data segments together defining first backup data read from a processing device, receiving L data segments, the L data segments together defining second backup data read from the processing device temporally subsequent to the reading of the N data segments, determining...