US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for detecting and tracking infectious diseases using sensor data" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,625, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and tracking infectious diseases using sensor data" was invented by Akram Ismail Sheriff (San Jose, Calif.), Hazim Hashim Dahir (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for identifying and reporting a space or individual that has been exposed to an infectious disease includes identifying sensor data related to one or more individuals in a space; determining, based on the sensor data, that a particular individual among the one or more individuals is infec...