ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,408, issued on June 24, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for generation of descriptive copy of grocery products" was invented by Bagya Lakshmi Vasudevan (Chennai, India), Sudesna Baruah (Chennai, India), Mayur Patidar (Noida, India) and Meghna Kishor Mahajan (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "E-commerce industry is currently expanding rapidly, worldwide. A process of generating product copy for grocery items, which is very challenging as food items, do not have features in common, unlike fashion products. A data associated with one or more grocery products is received as...