ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,285, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Robotic navigation with simultaneous local path planning and learning" was invented by Arup Kumar Sadhu (Kolkata, India), Lokesh Kumar (Kolkata, India), Ranjan Dasgupta (Kolkata, India), Mohit Ludhiyani (Kolkata, India) and Titas Bera (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In conventional robot navigation techniques learning and planning algorithms act independently without guiding each other simultaneously. A method and system for robotic navigation with simultaneous local path planning and learning is disclosed. The method discloses a...