US Patent Issued to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES on May 20 for "Automated placement of objects in bins using look ahead information by virtual sorting and packing" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,380, issued on May 20, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Automated placement of objects in bins using look ahead information by virtual sorting and packing" was invented by Chayan Sarkar (Kolkata, India), Marichi Agarwal (Kolkata, India), Aniruddha Singhal (Noida, India), Rajesh Sinha (Noida, India), Ankush Ojha (Noida, India) and Supratim Ghosh (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Online 3-dimensional bin packing problem (O3D-BPP) is getting renewed prominence due to the industrial automation brought by Industry 4.0. However, due to limited attention in the past and its challenging nature, a go...