ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,370, issued on March 25, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System to predict service level failure in supply chains" was invented by Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon (Montreal, Canada), Philippe Grangier (Montreal, Canada), Eric Prescott-Gagnon (Montreal, Canada) and Emmanuel Sabourin (Uden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for a low-touch centralized system to predict service level failure in a supply chain using machine learning. Embodiments include receiving only historical supply chain data from an archiving system for one or more supply chain entities storing ite...