US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Ally-adversary bimodal resource allocation optimization" (New York, Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,955, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ally-adversary bimodal resource allocation optimization" was invented by Shivaram Subramanian (Frisco, Texas), Pavithra Harsha (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Ali Koc (White Plains, N.Y.), Brian Leo Quanz (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Mahesh Ramakrishna (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Dhruv Shah (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for generating a resource allocation in an omnichannel distribution network. Demand forecast data and current inventory data related to a resource and the omnichannel distribution network are obtained and...