US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on June 30 for "Methods and systems for protecting computer systems from encryption-based malware" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,252, issued on June 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Methods and systems for protecting computer systems from encryption-based malware" was invented by Jorge Guajardo Merchan (Pittsburgh), Shalabh Jain (Pittsburgh), Pradeeep Pappachan (Pittsburgh), Stefan Gehrer (Pittsburgh), Christoph Peylo (Damme, Germany), Philipp Schott (Weinstadt, Germany) and Christopher Martin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes descriptions of methods and systems for executing a countermeasure against executed ransomware and for extracting an encryption key used by the ransomware. Embod...