ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,075, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Global optimizer for supply chain" was invented by Ajay A. Deshpande (White Plains, N.Y.), Ali Koc (White Plains, N.Y.), Ashish Jagmohan (Irvington, N.Y.), Pavithra Harsha (White Plains, N.Y.), Rakesh Mohan (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) and Yun Zhang (Ontario, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of receiving supply chain states of a plurality of nodes of a supply chain, respectively, where the supply chain states have restricted visibility among the plurality of nodes, determining a modification to a...