US Patent Issued to Kinaxis on Sept. 9 for "Analysis and correction of supply chain design through machine learning" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,137, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Analysis and correction of supply chain design through machine learning" was invented by Marcio Oliveira Almeida (Stittsville, Canada), Zhen Lin (Kanata, Canada), Behrouz Haji Soleimani (Halifax, Canada), Seyednaser Nourashrafeddin (Ottawa) and Chantal Bisson-Krol (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for a machine learning duster analysis of historical lead time data, which is augmented by one or more features. The data can also be divided into groups, based on time-density of the data, with clustering performed on each group. Furthermore, ...