US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on March 31 for "Geospatial-temporal pathogen tracing" (Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,826, issued on March 31, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Geospatial-temporal pathogen tracing" was invented by Daniel Alan Gregory (Cypress, Texas), Prithwish Basu (Lowell, Mass.), Zachary Ratliff (Somerville, Mass.), Siddharth Pal (Waltham, Mass.), Kimberly Gavin (Glen Echo, Md.), Benjamin Montgomery (Cambridge, Mass.) and Joud Khoury (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for geospatial-temporal pathogen tracing include: obtaining, from multiple mobile devices in association with a first time, first contact tracing data including at least first geospatial traffic data and first values of a...