ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,266, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Ransomware infection detection in filesystems" was invented by Oscar Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Di Wu (Newark, Calif.), Benjamin Reisner (San Francisco) and Matthew Edward Noe (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system that detects ransomware infection in filesystems. The system detects ransomware infection by using backup data of machines. The system detects ransomware infection in two stages. In the first stage, the system analyzes a filesystem's behavior. The filesystem's behavior can be obtained by loading the backup data an...