ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,488, issued on May 13, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system to detect and estimate dynamic obstacles using RGB-D sensors for robot navigation" was invented by Arindam Saha (Kolkata, India) and Ranjan Dasgupta (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to method and system to detect and estimate dynamic obstacles using Red Green Blue-Depth RGB-D sensors for robot navigation. Obstacle detection and tracking tasks with efficient processing of depth images becomes complex in dynamic and cluttered environments. The method detects one or more obstacles bein...