ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,431, issued on March 18, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Mutual information resolution recommendations and graphical visualizations using probabilistic graphical models" was invented by Deb Mohanty (Bangalore, India), Phani Mitra Bulusu (Bangalore, India), Rashid Puthiyapurayil (Bangalore, India), Vidhi Chugh (Delhi, India) and Tushar Shekhar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for training a probabilistic graphical model based on historical attributes of a supply chain to represent supply chain performance, selecting supply chain entity target variables, co...