ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,416, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Polarimetric characterization of transparent objects" was invented by Achanna Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India), Subhasri Chatterjee (Kolkata, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India), Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha (Bangalore, India) and Rokkam Krishna Kanth (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing Mueller Matrix polarization techniques that rely only on polarization properties are insufficient for accurate characterization of transparent objects. Embodiments of the present disclosure provid...