ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,078, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for efficiently updating solutions to multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problems" was invented by Vishal Shinde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for solving subsequent runs of a supply chain planning problem modeled as a multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem. Embodiments further include receiving supply chain input data for a supply chain planning problem, modeling the supply chain planning problem as a multi-objective hierarchal linear programming p...