US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on July 21 for "Ransomware detection and data pruning management" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,291, issued on July 21, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Ransomware detection and data pruning management" was invented by PurnaChandra Sekhar Bedhapudi (Eatontown, N.J.), Sri Karthik Bhagi (Morganville, N.J.), Deepak Raghunath Attarde (Marlboro, N.J.), Arun Prasad Amarendran (Manalapan, N.J.), Amit Bhaskar Ausarkar (Ocean, N.J.) and Mrityunjay Upadhyay (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to ransomware detection and data pruning management. Ransomware typically involves an I/O heavy process of encrypting data files and/or deleting or renaming the original files. Thus,...