US Patent Issued to Blue Yonder Group on Feb. 10 for "System and method of variable-fixing decomposition of supply chain planning problems" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,973, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of variable-fixing decomposition of supply chain planning problems" was invented by Tushar Shekhar (Bangalore, India), Narayan Nandeda (Ujjain, India) and Arijit Deb (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed including a computer that receives a formulation of a multi-objective linear programming planning problem, the formulation including at least one variable fixed at an upper bound or a lower bound. The computer also solves the formulation for a higher-order objective and fixes the upper bo...