US Patent Issued to Acquisition Simplicity on Oct. 7 for "Method, medium, and system for category composition and weighting selection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,335, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Acquisition Simplicity LLC (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Method, medium, and system for category composition and weighting selection" was invented by Shane Criddle (Liberty Lake, Wash.) and Matthew Ary (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating ability of multiple vendors to meet one or more requirements may include receiving information regarding items to be acquired (e.g., enterprise requirements, item requirements, relative importance data, etc.) and items available for purchase (e.g., data regarding items and their capabilities/characteristics available from multi...