ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,184, issued on April 15, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Automated construction of ingredient-functionality lists for formulated products using search engine result excerpts" was invented by Sagar Sunkle (Pune, India), Vinay Kulkarni (Pune, India), Deepak Shyamsunder Jain (Pune, India) and Beena Rai (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to the field of retrieval and extraction for designing formulated products by constructed ingredient-functionality lists for formulated products using search engine result excerpts in an automated manner. Many ingredients used in ...