US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 6 for "Automated social distancing recommendations" (Illinois, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,561, issued on May 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated social distancing recommendations" was invented by David Blanch (Austin, Texas), Michael Domitrovits (New Paltz, N.Y.) and Mark McCann (Willow Springs, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to automated social distancing recommendations, one or more computer processors monitor first data associated with a utilization of a physical space. One or more computer processors determine the first data associated with the utilization of the physical space exceeds a space utilization threshold. Based on the first data associated ...