US Patent Issued to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES on March 25 for "Method and system for ironmaking plant optimization" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,712, issued on March 25, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for ironmaking plant optimization" was invented by Manendra Singh Parihar (Pune, India), Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India), Sri Harsha Nistala (Pune, India) and Rajan Kumar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State-of-the-art systems used for plant monitoring and optimization fail to efficiently monitor and improve the performance of blast furnace ironmaking plants due to complexity of such plants. In addition, they attempt optimization without considering the operational stability of the blast furnace. The disclosur...