ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,617, issued on May 13, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Efficiently solving multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problems" was invented by Vishal Shinde (Bangaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method efficiently solve subsequent runs of a supply chain planning problem modeled as a multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem. Embodiments include modeling a supply chain planning problem as a multi-objective hierarchal linear programming problem having first Run1 objectives and based, at least in part, on supply chain input data, receiving one or more changes to th...