US Patent Issued to Nubeva on Feb. 24 for "Recovering from a ransomware attack using computational intelligence" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,431, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nubeva Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Recovering from a ransomware attack using computational intelligence" was invented by Randy Yen-Pang Chou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for recovering from a ransomware attack using computational intelligence. During operation, a monitoring system detects that a ransomware attack has encrypted multiple subsections of a data storage that is simultaneously being accessed by multiple processing units, and receives a set of encryption keys that were harvested for the multiple processing units. The syst...