ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,118, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Domain-aware decomposition for supply chain master planning using linear programming" was invented by Devanand R (Bangalore, India), Narayan Nandeda (Ujjain, India) and Tushar Shekhar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments include receiving an LP problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network comprising material buffers and resource buffers, partitioning the supply chain net...