ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,378, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Fair share band optimization using Gaussian Bayesian network" was invented by Narayan Nandeda (Ujjain, India), Phani Bulusu (Bangalore, India), Rashid Puthiyapurayil (Bangalore, India), Tushar Shekhar (Bangalore, India), Vidhi Chugh (Bangalore, India) and Vishal Shinde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently determining the fair-share bands of a supply chain planning problem modeled as a multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem include a processor and memory and are configured to model a sup...