US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 11 for "Monitoring and querying autobiographical events" (Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,865, issued on March 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Monitoring and querying autobiographical events" was invented by Rachel Ostrand (Milford, Pa.), Jenna Reinen (Rye Brook, N.Y.), Ryan Anderson (Kensington, Calif.) and Joseph Kozhaya (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to monitoring and querying autobiographical events, one or more computer processors receive data from one or more sensors associated with a user. Based on the received data from the one or more sensors, one or more computer processors detect an autobiographical event associated with the user. One...