ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,938, issued on May 5, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for automatic parameter tuning of campaign planning with hierarchical linear programming objectives" was invented by Devanand R (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for campaign planning and include modeling the use of campaign operations and campaignable resources of a supply chain network including a production line to produce products using campaign operations and campaignable resources as campaign planning problems, defining an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features ev...