US Patent Issued to Expii on March 4 for "Crowdsourced contact tracing" (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,098, issued on March 4, was assigned to Expii Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Crowdsourced contact tracing" was invented by Po-Shen Loh (Pittsburgh), Hannah Cai (San Jose, Calif.), Felipe Campos (Midlothian, Va.), John Choi (Pittsburgh), Timothy Chu (San Jose, Calif.), Dean Dijour (Morganville, N.J.), Bennett Huffman (Mequon, Wis.), Mohammed Jaffer (San Bruno, Calif.), Ziv Scully (Pittsburgh), Brandon Wang (Saratoga, Calif.), Lawrence Wang (New York) and Phillip Wang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include the following. Information about a first electronic communication device is transmitted to at least one se...