ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,884, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for web services relocation and users reallocation for data residency compliance" was invented by Pankaj Kumar Sahu (Pune, India), Sutapa Mondal (Pune, India), Mangesh Sharad Gharote (Pune, India), Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India), Rishabh Kumar (Pune, India) and Shubhro Shovan Roy (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of present disclosure herein address the need of minimizing web services relocation and user centers reallocation to comply with data residency regulations and change in latency thresho...