ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,712, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for data regulations-aware cloud storage and processing service allocation" was invented by Shubhro Shovan Roy (Kolkata, India), Pankaj Kumar Sahu (New Delhi), Mangesh Sharad Gharote (Pune, India), Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India) and Sutapa Mondal (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure a method for data regulations-aware cloud storage and processing service allocation. Conventional approaches fail to address the technical problem of data placement for storage as well as processing, considering m...