ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,614, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for augmented reality based indoor navigation" was invented by Paul Singh Selvarajan (Chennai, India), Roshini Jain (Chennai, India), Pratik Parida (Chennai, India), Balamurali Venkatesan (Chennai, India), Srilakshmi Murali (Chennai, India) and Meril Sakaria (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein provide a method and system for an augmented reality based indoor navigation. The system creates an augmented reality (AR) based fingerprinting to perform the dynamic routing. A floor wise plan of the buildi...