US Patent Issued to Nutanix on May 12 for "Ransomware detection and/or remediation as a service in file server systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,681, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Ransomware detection and/or remediation as a service in file server systems" was invented by Pankaj Kumar Sinha (Fremont, Calif.), Partha Pratim Nayak (San Jose, Calif.) and Tushar Dnyandev Adivarekar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of analytics systems may include a cloud based no-touch auto-update mechanism that may have access to ransomware signatures. For example, the service may pull ransomware signatures from a centralized public datastore through APIs and update the ransomware signatures on file servers subscribed to the analytics syst...