ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,245, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aclima Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.).

"Hyper-local mapping of environmental conditions" was invented by Todd Langland (El Granada, Calif.), Meghan Elizabeth Thurlow (San Francisco), Robert Murphy (Alameda, Calif.) and Davida Herzl (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for associating environmental data with map features is described. The method includes receiving sensor data and receiving position data. The sensor data is associated with each of a plurality of time intervals and is from at least one sensor on at least one mobile sensor platform. The position data is associated w...