ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,983, issued on July 22, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and a system for real time analysis of range of motion (ROM)" was invented by Vivek Chandel (Gurgaon, India), Avik Ghose (Kolkata, India) and Murali Poduval (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to real time analysis of range of motion (ROM), wherein ROM is a measurement of movement around a specific joint or body part. The existing techniques for ROM fail for measurements made in certain planes and are not very effective for ROM measurements for extremely slow and very fast movements. The disclose...