ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,982, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for provisioning virtual lab with learning management system" was invented by Viral Prakash Shah (Thane West, India), Mohit Shukla (Lucknow, India), Abhishek Gautam Puri (Lucknow, India) and Srijan Saxena (Lucknow, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current approaches create web based simulated lab type of setups for students/learners in which lab environment is created according to course of student. However, these conventional approaches require student systems to have some basic setup for working on virtual labs. Few avai...