US Patent Issued to Blue Yonder Group on Dec. 16 for "System and method of prepack configuration planning for distributing items" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,396, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of prepack configuration planning for distributing items" was invented by Vincent Raymond (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed including a prepack planner that determines an initial prepack configuration of a package including two or more items, which include one or more attributes and two or more attribute values. The prepack planner also evaluates the initial prepack configuration by solving a mixed integer problem model and selects the initial prepack configuration to be the parent prepack co...