ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,412, issued on June 30, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for acoustic based industrial machine inspection using DAS-beamforming and dictionary learning" was invented by Saurabh Sahu (Bangalore, India), Achanna Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Mariswamy Girish Chandra (Bangalore, India), Kriti Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Angshul Majumdar (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to a field of industrial machine inspection, and, more particularly, to method and system for acoustic based industrial machine inspection using Delay-and-Sum beamforming (DAS-B...