ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,083, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method for providing vehicle decontamination and system for the same" was invented by Hyun Jun Lim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Yu Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Ki Hee Park (Gwacheon-si, South Korea) and Jong Ho Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing vehicle decontamination includes receiving a decontamination request signal; monitoring a pollution level of inside air of a vehicle through a sensing unit that includes a fine dust sensor, an olfactory sensor, and a humidity sensor, according to the decon...