US Patent Issued to SafeTraces on Sept. 16 for "Sanitation monitoring system using pathogen surrogates and surrogate tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,008, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SafeTraces Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Sanitation monitoring system using pathogen surrogates and surrogate tracking" was invented by Antonios Zografos (Pleasanton, Calif.), Laurie M. Clotilde (Oakland, Calif.) and Peter Mattei (Lemon Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitation management system maintains records of exemplary locations on an item to be sanitized and indicates those locations to a person or system charged with applying a pathogen surrogate prior to a sanitation process. The sanitation management system maintains records of where the pathogen surrogate was applied...