ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,790, issued on April 15, was assigned to VelocityEHS Holdings Inc. (Chicago).

"Automated industrial hygiene assessment and display" was invented by Julia Penfield (Seattle), Aatish Suman (Chicago), Sami Navneeth (Oakville, Canada), Kristi Hames (Westerville, Ohio), Lee Boulineau (Tampa, Fla.) and David Scott Risi (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for automated industrial hygiene assessment and display comprising receiving sampling results for a stressor, such as a harmful environmental artifact in a physical environment; deriving one or more codes for the stressor from a digital record vi...