ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,041, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pandemic Insights Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Privacy-protecting pandemic-bio-surveillance multi pathogen systems" was invented by Eric Klasson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process, including: obtaining movement transactions without having server-side access to information by which the members of the population undergoing the changes in geolocation indicated by the movement transactions can be identified, either personally or pseudonymously; obtaining for movement transactions corresponding to a designated window of time, geographic-pathogen-risk scores of starting ge...