ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,962, issued on May 12, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Instruction monitoring for dynamic cloud workload reallocation based on ransomware attacks" was invented by Phani Bhushan Avadhanam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to identifying a ransomware attack. One embodiment relates to a method comprising configuring an operating system to collect metrics related to a hardware component. A message can be received from a user space library to validate an instruction detected in a cache, the instruction being associated with the hardware component. A metric can be ...