ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,029, issued on April 14, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for task planning for visual room rearrangement under partial observability" was invented by Dipanjan Das (Kolkata, India), Karan Mirakhor (Kolkata, India), Sourav Ghosh (Kolkata, India) and Brojeshwar Bhowmick (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for task planning for visual room rearrangement under partial observability is disclosed. The system or the robotic agent utilizes a visual input to efficiently plan a sequence of actions for simultaneous object search and rearrangement in an untidy room...