US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 11 for "Collaborative monitoring of location conditions" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,898, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Collaborative monitoring of location conditions" was invented by Denise Bell (Austin, Texas), Gianluca Gargaro (Rome), Maria Carmela Alesina (Rome) and Stefania Errore (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for monitoring a condition of a location is disclosed. This method includes storing monitoring records relating to segments of the location comprising one or more monitoring records being collected by the mobile computing device passing through the segment and monitoring records being received from a source mo...