ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,711, issued on July 8, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for screening and design of corrosion inhibitors" was invented by Dharmendr Kumar (Pune, India), Beena Rai (Pune, India), Abhishek Agarwal (Pune, India) and Vinay Jain (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for screening and design of corrosion inhibitors. Conventional techniques in the art for predicting the inhibition efficiency of the molecule are not so accurate, where the inhibition efficiency is one of the important parameter for screening and design of corrosio...