ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,134, issued on June 10, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for predicting batch processes" was invented by Vikrant Vikas Shimpi (Pune, India), Maitreya Natu (Pune, India), Neha Behl (Pune, India), Vaishali Paithankar Sadaphal (Pune, India), Satya Narayana Samudrala (Pune, India) and Deepa Vaidyanathan (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to method and system for predicting batch processes. Conventional batch schedulers provide a single point of control for defining and monitoring background executions in a distributed network. The method of the...