US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for public transit arrival time prediction" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,134, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Systems and methods for public transit arrival time prediction" was invented by Soumen Pachal (Chennai, India), Nancy Bhutani (New Delhi) and Avinash Achar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrival/Travel times for public transit exhibit variability on account of factors like seasonality, dwell times at bus stops, traffic signals, travel demand fluctuation, spatial and temporal correlations, etc. The developing world in particular is plagued by additional factors like lack of lane discipline, excess vehicles, diverse modes of transpo...