ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,796, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Targeted building sanitation" was invented by Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, Texas), Brian Tougas (Spring Branch, Texas), Arthur Quentin Smith (Fredericksburg, Texas), Mark P. Warnick (San Antonio) and Oscar Roberto Tijerina (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically performing a cleaning operation for a portion of a building are described herein. In one example, cleaning data specifying human activity in the portion of the building and/or one or more current infection rates for one or more pathoge...