ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,396, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Personalized particulate matter exposure management using fine-grained weather modeling and optimal control theory" was invented by Timothy M. Lynar (Dickson, Australia), Stephen M. Moore (Melbourne, Australia), Melanie E. Roberts (West Footscray, Australia), John M. Wagner (Carlton, Australia) and Sergiy Zhuk (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided. The method includes performing, by at least a computer processing system having a hardware processor, a particulate mapping process to predict particulate exposu...