ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,890, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Atmotech Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for measuring individual air pollutant exposure" was invented by Igor Mikhnenko (Kharkov, Ukraine), Vera Kozyr (St. Petersburg, Russia), Alexey Pyshkin (St. Petersburg, Russia), Dmitry Lukashev (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Alexander Masalov (St. Petersburg, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air quality monitor connected to a server that can identify individual people as they move from room to room count the people in each room; the information is then used to determine each person's individual exposure to pollutants."

The patent was file...