US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 3 for "Computerized inventory redistribution control system" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,026, issued on March 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Computerized inventory redistribution control system" was invented by Su-Ming Wu (Waltham, Mass.), Kiran Panchamgam (Bedford, Mass.) and Bernard Griffiths (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example of computerized inventory redistribution control includes, for each location inventory record in a set of location inventory records, calculating a quantity change that will bring a current item quantity to a different item quantity for the location inventory record. Determining a cost of a minimum-cost redistribution among...