US Patent Issued to Halcyon Tech on Aug. 11 for "Hook-based technique for countering ransomware" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,354, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Halcyon Tech Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Hook-based technique for countering ransomware" was invented by Clark Lindsey (Loudon, Tenn.), Robert Bushner (Homeland, Calif.), Alejandro Espinoza (San Marcos, Calif.), Kristen Lamb (Austin, Texas), Seagen Levites (Oregon City, Ore.), Jonathan Miller (Poway, Calif.), Ryan Smith (Austin, Texas), Vu Ta (Fellbach, Germany) and Chetan Varde (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injected module (IM) is deployed in a process space executing on a computing device. The IM is then executed to inspect resources of the computing device and determine, base...