US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Aug. 25 for "Non-contact method and system for inspection and detection of water saturated regions in rockmass" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,852, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Non-contact method and system for inspection and detection of water saturated regions in rockmass" was invented by Amit Swain (Kolkata, India), Anwesha Khasnobish (Kolkata, India), Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India) and Chirabrata Bhaumik (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current approaches for detecting water saturated regions in a rockmass uses geophysical methods, such as electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), self-potential (SP), and seismic imaging to spatially detect and map the rock water content in underground mines. Howeve...