ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,896, issued on March 11, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of segmented modelling for campaign planning in a very large-scale supply chain network" was invented by Ankit Shankdhar (Haridwar, India), Arijit Deb (Bangalore, India), Chaitanya Pai Kalasa Gopinath (Bangalore, India), Devender Pal Singh Chauhan (Bangalore, India) and Tushar Shekhar (Katihar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed including a planner having a processor and memory. The planner models a supply chain network over a planning horizon having one or more time buckets and a production lin...