ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,651, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for three-dimensional merchandising and space planning" was invented by Priyanka Dash (Chennai, India), Paul Singh (Chennai, India), Balamurali Venkatesan (Chennai, India), Rajapriya Mariappan (Chennai, India), Sundar Ramakrisnan (Chennai, India) and Richard Neiel (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to a method and system for three-dimensional (3D) merchandising and space planning. State-of-the-art methods providing the merchandising and space planning for store management in three-di...