US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on April 22 for "Systems and methods for reducing risk of pathogen exposure within a space" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,975, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for reducing risk of pathogen exposure within a space" was invented by Bhavesh Gupta (Niantic, Conn.) and Prabhat Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system reduces risk of pathogen exposure within a space that is located within a facility having a plurality of spaces that periodically have one or more people within the space. The system includes one or more occupancy sensors that are configured to provide an indication of when the space is occupied and when the space is not occupied. A sanitizer is confi...