US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Detecting allergens using internet of things" (North Carolina, Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,000, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting allergens using internet of things" was invented by Trudy L. Hewitt (Cary, N.C.), Christian Compton (Austin, Texas), Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for detecting allergens using smart tooth and IoT is provided. The method includes obtaining real-time environmental allergen context data, wherein the obtained real-time environmental allergen context data includes visual data and sensor data. Features are ...