US Patent Issued to iManage on March 31 for "Ransomware detection and mitigation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,674, issued on March 31, was assigned to iManage LLC (Chicago).

"Ransomware detection and mitigation" was invented by Randy Darling (Chicago), David Cook (Chicago), Mohit Mutreja (Chicago) and Demetri Bairaktaris (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to detecting malware in a document management system (DMS). File stubs representing files remotely stored in a DMS can be presented in file managers at local computing devices for review/interaction on the local computing devices. A file stub for a specific file can be selected in the file manager, and a request to download the file can be provided to th...