ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,933, issued on June 24, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for getting desired property of blend by optimizing blending rules" was invented by Vishnu Swaroopji Masampally (Pune, India), Aditya Pareek (Pune, India) and Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gasoline blending is a critical aspect in oil refinery operations. There are multiple blending rules in prior art to predict the chemical or physical property of the blend. But none of the prior method focuses on obtaining the best blending rule for each feature used in creating the soft-sensor. A method...