ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,600, issued on Nov. 11.

"UV exposure monitoring and alerts application" was invented by Shriya Viswanathan (Plano, Texas) and Saura Agarwal (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computerized system comprising: a user-interface configured to: display a skin color selection, wherein the skin color selection comprises a plurality of skin pigments, receive a user skin color selection, display a skin cancer familial history input field, receive a skin cancer familial history input value, display a sun protection factor (SPF) input field, receive a SPF sunscreen input value selection for sunscreen being used; a sun ...