ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,536, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of dynamic localization of a telepresence robot based on live markers" was invented by Robin Tommy Kulangara Muriyil (Thiruvananthapuram, India) and Swapnil Kalhapure (Thiruvananthapuram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Currently teleconferencing robotic systems available are not smart and unable to navigate based on specific path and fail to focus on presenter based on overall environment. This disclosure relates to method of dynamic localization of a telepresence robot based on plurality of live markers. A plurality of im...