US Patent Issued to Blue Yonder Group on June 24 for "System and method of an attribute-value combination and assortment planner" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,326, issued on June 24, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of an attribute-value combination and assortment planner" was invented by Jonathan Vallee (Laval, Canada) and Marie-Claude Cote (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for generating an assortment plan by an assortment planner. The assortment planner stores value metrics for two or more products, each of the products including two or more of attributes. The assortment planner also analyzes the two or more attributes, by generating attribute values for each of the two or more attributes and ...