ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,892, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for extracting contextual product feature model from requirements specification documents" was invented by Padmalata Venkata Nistala (Hyderabad, India), Asha Sushilkumar Rajbhoj (Pune, India), Vinay Kulkarni (Pune, India) and Shivani Soni (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure extracts contextual product feature model from requirement specification documents where the conventional methods fail to perform. Initially, the system receives a plurality of requirement specification documents pertaining to a p...