ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,550, issued on June 16, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods of multimodal interaction-based supply chain execution" was invented by Pankaj Rathoure (Hyderabad, India), Mayank Tiwari (Serilingampalle, India) and Santosh Kumar (Ramgarh Cantt, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for performing supply chain execution. The method includes monitoring for a current user, a user interaction and user input signals, a user environment and a user intent, detecting the user intent from input signals, determining a focus prompt of the current user, detecting the input...