ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,216, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Enhanced graph-based modeling for geographic region optimization" was invented by Julie Marie Paule Poullet (Seattle), Andre Cornelis Joseph Snoeck (Austin, Texas), Daniel Esteban Merchan Duenas (Austin, Texas), Marc Joseph Anderson (Driftwood, Texas), Julian Enrique Pachon (Austin, Texas), Shalini Vangala (Mount Juliet, Tenn.), Mayur Rajendra Giri (Nashville, Tenn.), Raj Kumar Jayapalan (Lago Vista, Texas) and Devender Kumar Gunti Venkata (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for graph-based modeling to optimize geographic regions using a re...