ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,588, issued on April 15, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Categorization based on text and attribute factorization" was invented by Bagya Lakshmi Vasudevan (Chennai, India) and Sudesna Baruah (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to method and system for product data categorization based on text and attribute factorization. The method includes acquiring an input describing a set of product data from an application data store for categorization. The set of product data by removing extraneous text based on a predefined template. Further a dictionary for the set o...