ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,513, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DRUVA INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for ransomware scan using incremental data blocks" was invented by Uday Sanjay Swami (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing ransomware scan is presented. The system includes a snapshot access module configured to access a base snapshot corresponding to a dataset. The system further includes a log access module configured to access a log of modified metadata and/or data blocks from a data back-up server corresponding to a subsequent snapshot versus the base snapshot. The system moreover includes an incremental bl...