ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,230, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for surface wear inspection using millimeter wave radar" was invented by Amit Swain (Kolkata, India), Anwesha Khasnobish (Kolkata, India), Smriti Rani (Kolkata, India), Chirabrata Bhaumik (Kolkata, India) and Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for surface wear inspection using millimeter wave radar. The system initially receives a plurality of uncompressed raw Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Further, a plurality of reconstructed SAR images are generated ...