ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,516, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Upstream visibility in supply-chain" was invented by Elisabeth Claire Paulson (Cambridge, Mass.), Ashish Jagmohan (Irvington, N.Y.), Ajay Ashok Deshpande (White Plains, N.Y.), Pavithra Harsha (White Plains, N.Y.), Ali Koc (White Plains, N.Y.), Krishna Chaitanya Ratakonda (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Ramesh Gopinath (Millwood, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of acquiring, by a retailer node, an inventory data from a supplier node over a blockchain network, receiving, by the retailer node, outs...