ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,739, issued on May 13, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for micro-climate management" was invented by Prachin Lalit Jain (Thane, India), Sanket Junagade (Thane, India), Sanat Sarangi (Thane, India) and Srinivasu Pappula (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art systems used for monitoring of land (for example, agricultural land), fail to accurately assess various conditions in the land area and make predictions. The disclosure herein generally relates to agricultural systems, and, more particularly, to a method and system for micro-climate management in a land ...