ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,402, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of machine fault classification using label-consistent convolutional dictionary learning" was invented by Saurabh Sahu (Bangalore, India), Kriti Kumar (Bangalore, India), Achanna Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Mariswamy Girish Chandra (Bangalore, India) and Angshul Majumdar (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing Convolutional Dictionary Learning (CDL) based machine fault classification do not utilize label information while learning the dictionary, hence the representation learned are not class-discriminative. Method...