ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,368, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for optimized assignment of traversal tasks under imperfect sensing of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Swagata Biswas (Kolkata, India) and Himadri Sekhar Paul (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for optimized assignment of traversal tasks under imperfect sensing of autonomous vehicles. Most of the techniques assumes perfect equipment conditions. With the imperfect sensing, most of the optimized assignment and scheduling algorithm may not be effective durin...