ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,968, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of sensing the best-connected future path for a mobile telerobot" was invented by Abhijan Bhattacharyya (Kolkata, India), Madhurima Ganguly (Bangalore, India), Suraj Mahato (Kolkata, India) and Ashis Sau (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to a method and system for sensing best-connected future path for a mobile telerobot based on radio signal strength (RSS) prediction algorithm through in-situ radio-sensing. State-of-the-art methods predict the future path from the plurality of poss...