ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,627, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Solving supply networks with discrete decisions" was invented by Jakob Witzig (Walldorf, Germany), Anna Walter (Walldorf, Germany), Christoph Eckert (Muhlhausen, Germany), Dimitri Kniasew (Walldorf, Germany), Maximilian Pfister (Walldorf, Germany), Carsten Schumm (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Claudia Volke (Bruchsal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The example embodiments are directed to methods and systems for generating a model of an optimum flow of materials within a supply network based on a relax mixed integer programming model. For example, the method may ...