ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,618, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for fashion attribute detection" was invented by Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha (Bangalore, India), Gaurab Bhattacharya (Bangalore, India), Nikhil Kilari (Bangalore, India), Bagyalakshmi Vasudevan (Chennai, India) and Balamuralidhar Purushothaman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traditional systems used for fashion attribute detection struggle to generate accurate predictions due to presence of large intra-class and relatively small inter-class variations in data related to the fashion attributes. The...