US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Carbon footprint estimation using foundation model" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,004, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Carbon footprint estimation using foundation model" was invented by Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India), Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India), Ayush Jain (Lucknow, India), Ranjini Bangalore Guruprasad (Bangalore, India) and Shantanu R. Godbole (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Scope 3 emission system includes a controller with a microprocessor and a memory. The memory stores executable instructions that when executed by the microprocessor cause the microprocessor to perform a computer-executable method. The method compris...