ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,196, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for estimating urban metabolism" was invented by Shailesh Shankar Deshpande (Pune, India), Chaman Banolia (New Delhi) and Balamuralidhar Purushothaman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of present disclosure herein address problem of urban metabolism with respect to water demand carbon dioxide emissions, the discussion is based on the reported data by the urban areas. The embodiments herein provide a method and system for estimating urban metabolism based on remotely sensed data. The system is configu...