US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Contact tracing utilizing device signatures captured during transactions" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,992, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contact tracing utilizing device signatures captured during transactions" was invented by Richard C. Johnson (Selkirk, N.Y.), Alex Richard Hubbard (Rensselaer, N.Y.), Cody J. Murray (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), Vinay Pai (Albany, N.Y.) and Nikhil Jain (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach, a processor receives device identification information corresponding to at least one device local to a location of a transaction. A processor receives notification of an infected user. A processor determines that the infected user is assoc...