ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,936, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Pupil detection using circle formation based scoring method" was invented by Surabhi Garg (New Delhi), Seshu Sri Ponnapalli (Hyderabad, India), Rajan Mindigal Alasingara Bhattachar (Bangalore, India), Arvind Ramchandra Jadhav (Hyderabad, India) and Deepthi Kollipara (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure detects a pupil of an eye using circle formation based scoring method. The conventional approaches fail to provide an accurate and reliable biometric authentication due to the usage of simple thresholding based st...