ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,786, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for determining guest satisfaction including guest sleep quality in hotels" was invented by Bhavesh Gupta (Bangalore, India), Gunjan Chanduka (Bangalore, India), Magesh Lingan (Bangalore, India), Zhongshengyun Gao (Shanghai), Gregory Wade Howard (Amston, Conn.), Raushan Kumar Ravi (Burnaby, Canada) and Prabhat Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides for evaluating a hotel guest's satisfaction of a hotel, the hotel including a plurality of guest rooms, the hotel guest staying in a guest room of...