ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,309, issued on July 14, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for solving multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problems using previously-solved solution information" was invented by Vishal Shinde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of solving supply chain planning problems modeled as multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problems receive supply chain input data for a supply chain planning problem, solve a first multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem, store a cumulative list of bound changes, receive changes to the supply ...