ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,313, issued on March 17, was assigned to Demand Pat LLC (Port Washington, N.Y.).

"System and method for implementing a user controlled supply chain system" was invented by Joseph Fedele (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), Harpreet GeeKee (Oakville, Canada), Richard Oh (New York) and Gordon Kessler (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for implementing a user controlled supply chain system includes receiving information from one or more potential users including one or more wants, needs, and desires, and indicative of a desire to retain control of user information including one or more elements of demand for a prod...