ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,485, issued on June 17, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Omni-channel multi-level demand prioritization and allocation" was invented by Maruthy Boggarapu (Hyderabad, India), Pankaj Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Shankar Lakkaraju (Hyderabad, India), Rajeev Vasudev (Hyderabad, India), Samson Sudhahar (Hyderabad, India), Chaitanya Lella (Hyderabad, India), Venu Gurram (Hyderabad, India), Sudhakar Jayapal (Hyderabad, India) and Lalitha Namburi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are multi-level replenishment planning with independent channel demand prioritization that initiates pro...