US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Minimizing aggregate carbon footprint within geographical region" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,313, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Minimizing aggregate carbon footprint within geographical region" was invented by Sudhanshu Sekher Sar (Bangalore, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Satyam Jakkula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for optimizing locations of micro-warehouses that minimize an aggregate carbon footprint within a geographical region. A first trained artificial intelligence model is used to extract, for a geographical region, a product de...