ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,286, issued on May 19, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Dynamic task priority assignments in warehouse" was invented by Vincent Raymond (Montreal, Canada), Phillipe Grangier (Montreal, Canada), Marc Brisson (Boucherville, Canada) and Steven Cheney (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for a warehouse management system having a task database and a server comprising a processor and memory. The system groups one or more tasks from the task database into one or more groups, estimate the latest feasible start time for each group of the one or more groups and assigns a p...