ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,399, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"System and method of an explanation tool for automotive production planning" was invented by Vincent Raymond (Montreal, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed including a production planner that receives a sales forecast for configurations of an automobile. The production planner also receives constraints associated with an automobile supply chain. The production planner further models configurations and constraints as a production planning problem, solves a production plan for automobiles, and displays an automobile pr...