US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Aug. 5 for "Safety-aware route recommendation system and method" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,225, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Safety-aware route recommendation system and method" was invented by Dario Pompili (Hillsborough, N.J.), Saman Zonouz (Jersey City, N.J.) and Vidyasagar Sadhu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms, and apparatus providing location safety management implemented by cooperating mobile devices that operate in a privacy-secured manner to identify respective proximate infectious areas, build corresponding local datasets of the infectious areas, and share...