US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Robotic assistance continuity using pedestrian gait recognition" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,046, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Robotic assistance continuity using pedestrian gait recognition" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Nitika Sharma (Zirakpur, India), Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A a method for robotic assistance continuity to a pedestrian using gait recognition. The method includes determining a gait pattern of the pedestrian based on analysis of visual data obtained at a first position. The pedestrian is provided assistance based on a query at the first position. The pedes...