ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,244, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for narrow passage path sampling based on levy flight" was invented by Shubham Shukla (Kolkata, India), Debojyoti Chakraborty (Kolkata, India), Titas Bera (Kolkata, India), Ranjan Dasgupta (Kolkata, India) and Lokesh Kumar (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for narrow passage path sampling based on levy flight is disclosed. The disclosed technique is an improvisation of Random Walk to Surface (RWS), wherein, instead of performing a random walk, the disclosed technique utilizes levy flight mechanism ...