US Patent Issued to CVS Pharmacy on June 23 for "Systems and methods for using machine learning algorithms to forecast promotional demand of products" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,562, issued on June 23, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).

"Systems and methods for using machine learning algorithms to forecast promotional demand of products" was invented by Samta Shukla (Woonsocket, R.I.), Mukul Sankule (Woonsocket, R.I.), Diego Juarez (Woonsocket, R.I.), Delfina Iriarte (Woonsocket, R.I.), Nicolas Garcia Aramouni (Woonsocket, R.I.), John R. Cybulski (Woonsocket, R.I.) and Halil Cobuloglu (Woonsocket, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a new marketing promotion for a particular product; determining, based on the particular product, a first ...