ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,163, issued on June 9, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system to determine an optimal set of atom centered symmetry functions (ACSFs)" was invented by Mohammed Wasay Mudassir (Hyderabad, India), Sriram Goverapet Srinivasan (Chennai, India), Mahesh Mynam (Hyderabad, India) and Beena Rai (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to method to determine an optimal set of atom centered symmetry functions. One or more parameters associated with one or more atom centered symmetry functions (ACSFs) are received. An initial set of ACSFs is generated by varying the ...