ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,587, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Predicting and enhancing shelf life of produce in storage" was invented by Shrikant Arjunrao Kapse (Pune, India), Hrishikesh Nilkanth Kulkarni (Pune, India), Shankar Balajirao Kausley (Pune, India), Dilshad Ahmad (Pune, India), Beena Rai (Pune, India) and Priya Kedia (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to shelf life of produce and, more particularly, for predicting and enhancing shelf life of produce in storage facility. A significant quantity of produce such as fresh fruits and vegetable are lost before ...