ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,841, issued on March 4, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for non-invasive real-time prediction of liquid food quality within enclosed package" was invented by Jayita Dutta (Pune, India), Parijat Deshpande (Pune, India) and Beena Rai (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art food quality measurement techniques fail to determine quality of the food item once it is packed and sealed in a container. The disclosure herein generally relates to food quality prediction, and, more particularly, to a system and method for predicting food quality in a non-invasive manner. A Co...