Exagrid Systems Assigned Patent

Exagrid Systems, Inc., Marlborough, MA, has been assigned a patent (11893109) developed by Pientka, Alex, Carleton, Michael, Marlborough, MA, VanderSpek, Adrian T., Worcester, MA, Smith, Stephen, Makosky, Luke, Marlborough, MA, Watkins, Peter, Newton Center, MA, Turner, Nathaniel W., Providence, RI, Scott, Sandra C., Marlborough, MA, Chao, Yee-Ching, Nashua, NH, Gillispie, Thomas J., Acton, MA, Andrews, William, Reading, MA, Therrien, David G., Nashua, NH, Poirier, Jamey C., Grafton, MA, Hecker, Mark B., Northborough, MA, and French, Andrew H., Lexington, MA, for “protection and recovery of backup storage systems from ransomware attacks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, a system, and a computer program product for protection and recovery of backup storage systems from ransomware attacks. A request to modify data stored in a storage system is received. The storage system includes at least one component configured to store the deduplicated data. An acknowledgement of the received request is generated. The acknowledgement indicates that the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request was modified. Modification of the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request for a predetermined period of time is prevented.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-01-15 (17/149880).