MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202321061414 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Sept. 12, 2023, for 'method and system to streamline return decision and optimize costs.'

Inventor(s) include D'Souza, Shaun Cyprian; and Jain, Gaurav.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The embodiments of present disclosure herein address unresolved problem in existing initiatives to optimize costs and streamlining the return decisions which are based on legacy infrastructure and explicit rules such as a SQL database. Embodiments herein provide a method a...