ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,535, issued on June 16, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Automated supply chain demand forecasting" was invented by Javier Recasens (Atlanta) and Prasanna Kumar Ragavan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving training data representing historic consumer demand for products, detecting changepoints in that data that may be associated with disruptive events, identifying relevant data for modeling, performing clustering, processing configuration information, training one or more machine learning models that are capable of evaluating other received data more...