US Patent Issued to Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) on March 3 for "Method to reduce users from falling victim of ransomware" (American, Null, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,107, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (New Tech Park, Singapore).

"Method to reduce users from falling victim of ransomware" was invented by Eric R Kern (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Robert Furda (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), MD Kamrul Hasan (Romansville, Pa.) and Mahesh Bharadwaj (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer program product to reduce users from falling victim of ransomware is disclosed. The method includes periodically administering, by a processor, a security awareness test to a user and generating a security awareness score based on user perf...