ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,956, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of reinforced machine-learning retail allocation" was invented by Ganesh Muthusamy (Hyderabad, India), Sudhakar Jayapal (Hyderabad, India), Karthik Kondapaneni (Hyderabad, India) and Rajneesh Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for allocation planning comprise a server comprising a processor and memory and configured to calculate a reward for a historical allocation of a product to one or more stores associated with a retailer. Embodiments include simulating what-if scenarios for the hi...