US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 26 for "Mitigating ransomware activity of a host system using a kernel monitor" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,437, issued on May 26, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Mitigating ransomware activity of a host system using a kernel monitor" was invented by Andrea Cosentino (Rome) and Paolo Antinori (Novara, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kernel monitor can be used to mitigate ransomware activity of a host system. In some aspects, a computing system can use the kernel monitor to monitor a set of system calls generated by the host system within a time window to perform a functionality. The kernel monitor can include a respective kernel program monitoring each system call in the set of system calls. The set of system calls can...