ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,169, issued on April 7, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Activity prediction using portable multispectral laser speckle imager" was invented by Renju Parappillil Baby (Bangalore, India), Parama Pal (Bangalore, India) and Beena Rai (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multispectral laser speckle analysis techniques have been widely used for applications such as the analysis of seed qualities, detection of fungal infections in fresh produce, estimation of blood flow velocities, and the like. However, the conventional methods fail to address color bias in images which is a major concern in terms of...