ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,595, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of predicting safe time of operation for a rotary kiln" was invented by Akanksha Dhayal (Pune, India), Sivakumar Subramanian (Pune, India), Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India) and Mohammed Suhail (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to a method and system for predicting safe time of operation for a rotary kiln. Over the period of time, the rotary kiln develops a ring within the inner walls of the kiln and suffers sudden shut down due to choking of the kiln. State-of-the-art methods provid...