ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,029, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems of sequential latent inference of complex knowledge" was invented by Phillip Williams (Ottawa), Sebastien Ouellet (Ottawa), Nathaniel Stanley (Ottawa) and Chantal Bisson-Krol (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems that allow for supply chain logic to be instrumented in such a way that a supply planner can see the major factors driving KPIs, as well as drill down to the lower level to see the impact of each item at the smallest possible level."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2022, under Application No. 17/954,481.

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