ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,419, issued on June 10, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Sanitized surface monitoring and smart user alerts" was invented by Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Cottrell (Canandaigua, N.Y.), Carolina G. Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico) and Kelly Camus (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and system include a processor(s) that map a physical environment by utilizing one or more image capture devices to scan aspects of the physical environment. The mapping identifies contamination levels and features associated with objects in the environment. The proc...