ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,491, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Method, medium, and system for demand planning" was invented by Vincent Raymond (Montreal), Eric Prescott-Gagnon (Montreal) and Marc Brisson (Boucherville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed including a demand planner that receives a demand for two or more options that are needed to produce at least one automobile. The demand planner also models the two or more options as a network of arcs and nodes and generates one or more valid configurations of the two or more options. The demand planner further determines the...