ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,474, issued on June 17, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Sentient optimization for continuous supply chain management" was invented by Anand Iyer (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is disclosed for incrementally adjusting a supply chain plan. The system includes a database operable to store data associated with one or more supply chain entities and a server system coupled with the database. The server system receives one or more perturbations in supply chain plan inputs from one or more of the supply chain entities, wherein the perturbations are received during a period...