US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 23 for "Decontamination of transportation vehicles" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,421, issued on June 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Decontamination of transportation vehicles" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for decontaminating transportation vehicles is provided. The embodiment may include receiving GPS data and real-time and historical data relating to contamination. The embodiment may also include identifying a route and location of the transportation vehicle. The embodiment may further include predicting one or more t...