ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,405, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for autonomous multi-bin parcel loading system" was invented by Aniruddha Singhal (Noida, India), Harshad Khadilkar (Thane West, India), Venkat Raju Chintalapalli Patta (Bangalore, India), Deepak Raina (Noida, India), Venkatesh Srinivas Prasad (Bangalore, India), Shivam Thukral (Noida, India), Rajesh Sinha (Noida, India) and Richa Verma (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art automated bin packing systems fail to handle dynamic scenarios in which information on dimensions of objects to be loaded is not avail...