ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,087, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of providing a supply chain digital hub" was invented by Ripu Daman Singh (Southlake, Texas), Madhav S. Durbha (Suwanee, Ga.), John Sarvari (Suwanee, Ga.) and Anand Medepalli (Richmond, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed including a digital hub and a cloud database. The digital hub encodes, as a virtual supply chain network, the structure, one or more objectives, and one or more states of a supply chain network and contextualizes data received from one or more supply chain entities and one...