ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,420, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for facilitating planogram compliance for inventory management" was invented by Jayanta Mukherjee (Kolkata, India), Rahul Das (Kolkata, India), Biswanath Pati (Bhubaneswar, India) and Aravind Selvaraj (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Planograms are used to create consistency between store locations, to provide proper shelf space allocation, to improve visual merchandising appeal, and to create product-pairing suggestions. Existing solutions do not have a way to accurately estimate the scale of magnification of the o...