ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,612, issued on May 27, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI (New Delhi).

"Pollution monitoring system and method thereof" was invented by Shouri Chatterjee (New Delhi), Payali Das (New Delhi), Sushmita Ghosh (New Delhi) and Swades De (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pollution monitoring system and a method is disclosed. The pollution monitoring system comprises an on-board sensor unit having a plurality of sensors, configured for monitoring air quality by measuring pollution data in the air and a power control unit connected with the on-board sensor unit for controlling the operation of the on-board sensor ...