US Patent Issued to Zoho on Nov. 3 for "Methods and systems for protecting shadow copies" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,667, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zoho Corporation Private Limited (Kanchipuram District, India).

"Methods and systems for protecting shadow copies" was invented by Mathivanan Venkatachalam (Chennai, India), Rajesh Ranganathan (Kanchipuram District, India), Vishal Santharam (Kanchipuram District, India) and Kirubagaran Thangasami (Kanchipuram District, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods and systems that prevent malicious software from deleting shadow copies of computer files that might be required to restore user data in the event of a ransomware attack. A user layer includes a volume snapshot service that...