ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,614, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Method and system to estimate smoking episodes from smoke puffs using a wearable device" was invented by Shalini Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata, India), Varsha Sharma (Kolkata, India), Swarnava Dey (Kolkata, India), Sakyajit Bhattacharya (Kolkata, India) and Avik Ghose (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to method and system for estimating smoking episodes from smoke puffs using a wearable device. Since the expense of treating diseases is rising, a digital smoking cessation improves healthcare systems such as c...