ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,420, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of error modelling for object localization using ultra wide band (UWB) sensors" was invented by Avik Ghose (Kolkata, India), Chirabrata Bhaumik (Kolkata, India), Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India) and Amit Swain (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultra Wide Band (UWB) based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) that are being used for location tracking suffer from environment specific errors that are introduced due to factors such as difference in reflection and propagation. In order to address this challenge, present inv...