US Patent Issued to Kinaxis on April 7 for "Method and system for efficient segmentation for forecasting" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,726, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Method and system for efficient segmentation for forecasting" was invented by Behrouz Haji Soleimani (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for partitioning forecast items into segments, or groups, based on an attribute. Once partitioned, segments are aggregated based on a predetermined memory size limit using an aggregation method. Aggregation methods include methods for providing segments that have a similar number of records. Segmentation is further enhanced by including variance reduction gain as a metric for selecting the order of attributes."

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