ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,851, issued on July 29, was assigned to Istari Digital Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Architecture for quantifying avoided carbon emissions in a digital engineering platform" was invented by William Roper Jr. (Charleston, S.C.), Christopher Lee Benson (Arlington, Va.), Sriram Krishnan (Cambridge, Mass.), Baha aldeen E. A. Abunojaim (Roslindale, Mass.), Danne Stayskal Huffaker (Eastsound, Wash.) and Ellie Daw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for quantifying avoided carbon emissions. The approach includes receiving, from a client d...