ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,246, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for vicarious calibration of optical data from satellite sensors" was invented by Chaman Banolia (New Delhi), Balamuralidhar Purushothaman (Bangalore, India) and Shailesh Shankar Deshpande (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein provide a method and system for a vicarious calibration of optical data from satellite sensors for urban scene flat fields. Identifying test sites automatically in the urban scene helps in vicarious calibration or on-board calibration of the hyperspectral/multispectral image. An ...