ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,477, issued on March 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) and Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (Bangalore, India).

"Controller to determine swim characteristics of a swimmer and method thereof" was invented by Thorsten Sohnke (Asperg, Germany), Amithash Kankanallu Jagadish (London), Kaustubh Ashok Gandhi (Stuttgart, Germany), Sengottuvelan Senthilmurugan (Erode, India), Pudur Marudhachalam Dheepak (Coimbatore, India), Mohan Pooja (Trivandrum, India) and Tomar Mahima (Etah, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller of a wearable device is used to determine swim characteristics of a swimm...