ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,840, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for extracting and collating failure knowledge from diverse sources in industrial plant" was invented by Trinath Gaduparthi (Pune, India), Purnendu Kumar Rath (Kolkata, India), Sapankumar Hiteshchandra Shah (Pune, India), Sreedhar Sannareddy Reddy (Pune, India), Purushottham Gautham Basavarsu (Pune, India) and Himanshu Nirgudkar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Failure analysis of industrial plants are stored in various types of documents associated with industrial plant. The documents are used by operators of plant t...