US Patent Issued to Halcyon Tech on June 23 for "Suspension and characterization of running processes for countering ransomware" (California, Texas, Oregon, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,279, issued on June 23, was assigned to Halcyon Tech Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Suspension and characterization of running processes for countering ransomware" was invented by Seagen Levites (Oregon City, Ore.), Jonathan Miller (Poway, Calif.), Peter Morgan (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Robert Bushner (Homeland, Calif.), Ross Bryant (San Antonio) and Ryan Smith (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ransomware attacks on computing devices can be thwarted by monitoring runtime execution data associated with processes on a device through an agent. When the agent determines, based on this data, that a process is likely associated with ransomw...