ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,661, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Caladesi Technology Inc. (Sarasota, Fla.).
"Data tampering defense system" was invented by John William Hayes (Clearwater, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for detecting and thwarting ransomware attacks are disclosed. Target data (11) is read from a repository of data (12). An order measurement sensor (14) calculates a number of measurements of order (16) of the target data (11). Each measurement of order (16) is calculated from an EnFret (40) which describes the portion of the target data (11) to use. A comparator (18) compares the measurement of order (14) with a plural...