ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,979, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for acoustic based gesture tracking and recognition using spiking neural network" was invented by Andrew Gigie (Bangalore, India), Arun George (Bangalore, India), Achanna Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Sounak Dey (Kolkata, India), Kuchibhotla Aditi (Bangalore, India) and Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gesture recognition is a key requirement for Human Computer Interaction (HCl) and multiple modalities are explored in literature. Conventionally, channel taps are estimated using least square based estimat...