US Patent Issued to Target Brands on June 2 for "Models to support capacity planning in ship-from-store operations" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,031, issued on June 2, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Models to support capacity planning in ship-from-store operations" was invented by Daria Herasymova (Minneapolis), Anna Holschuh (Minneapolis) and Chandrashekar Tallichetty (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for optimizing a ship-from-shore process are provided. A decision model receives forecasted demand node data representing a plurality of possible shipping node configurations. The decision model generates output data that includes an assignment of the forecasted demand to nodes among the plurality of nodes based on the shipping c...