ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,620, issued on May 13, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for assessment of environmental and/or social risks" was invented by Shazim Chaudhary (Piscataway, N.J.), Christopher Thomas (Merrick, N.Y.), Roque Rios III (Middletown, N.J.), Osama Syed (Iselin, N.J.) and Denis Zou (Whippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving environmental data from a plurality of environmental data sources, identifying environmental risks based on the environmental data, obtaining profile information relating to a user or entity, based on the o...