ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,445, issued on July 14, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for hybrid data augmentation for estimating performance degradation in industrial plant" was invented by Tanmaya Singhal (Pune, India), Anirudh Deodhar (Pune, India), Vishal Sudam Jadhav (Pune, India) and Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method and system for hybrid data augmentation for estimating performance degradation in industrial plant. Performance degradation in industrial plants cannot be measured by sensors or laboratory measurements and there are no methods ...