ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,666, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of training of chained neural networks for delay prediction in transit networks" was invented by Rohith Regikumar (Chennai, India), Priyanga Kasthurirajan (Chennai, India), Arvind Ramanujam (Chennai, India) and Rajesh Jayaprakash (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art approaches for training chained neural network models for delay prediction train the data models using only real data and not predicted data. Such models when used in a chained way leads to worse results as they are not exposed to predict...