ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,890, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Part composition classification for articles of manufacture" was invented by Durgesh Nandini Das (Hyderabad, India), Ranganathan Srikanth (Redmond, Wash.) and Clarence Wong (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for describing a composition of an article of manufacture are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving article composition data for an article of manufacture that identifies a set of parts of the article, a stated composition for each part of the set of parts, and a physical quantity of the st...