ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,772, issued on March 3, was assigned to OII INC. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data ingestion for supply chain optimization" was invented by David Michael Evans (Welwyn Garden City, Great Britain), Robert Derward Rogers (Oakland, Calif.), Vishnuvyas Sethumadhavan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mehran Najafi (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to systems and methods for ingesting of raw client data into a supply chain optimization system. The client enterprise data system (EDS) provides raw data, typically in tabular format across many files, to a data management module of the optimi...