ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,695, issued on July 8, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"PFAS remediation option explorer tool" was invented by Gary Lee Klein (Reston, Va.), Ryan Douglas Hollins (Rockville, Md.), Mark Stephen Pfaff (Woburn, Mass.), Brittany Allison Tracy (Garden City, Ga.), Elizabeth Haines (Bellingham, Mass.), James Alex Philp (Missoula, Mont.), Jay Nathan Lustig (Nashua, N.H.), Thomas W. Whieldon (Roy, Wash.), Joseph John Patrick Roberts (Clifton, Va.), Christopher M. Berger (Lowell, Mass.) and Gavin Timothy Plesko (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method comprising aggregating ...