ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,639, issued on April 14, was assigned to Indie Tech Ltd. (Toronto).

"Methods and systems for time-variant variable prediction and management for supplier procurement" was invented by Sophia Gabrielle Contreras Stone (Toronto) and John Symeon Scoufaris (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a time-variant supplier variable related to a contract. The method includes receiving, by a processor having a supplier variable module, a user historical data set, a global historical data set and an external data set. The method includes generating, by the supplier variable module, a set of outcomes; outputti...