ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,596, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Efficient Extended Kalman filter (EKF) under feed-forward approximation of a dynamical system" was invented by Rohith Regikumar (Chennai, India), Avinash Achar (Chennai, India) and Akshaya Natarajan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Extended Kalman filter (EKF) is a general nonlinear version of the Kalman filter and an approximate inference solution which uses a linearized approximation performed dynamically at each step and followed by linear KF application. Extended Kalman Filter involves dynamic computation of the partial der...