ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,082, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of tank-based production planning" was invented by Piyush Shah (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of a multi-level tank-based production system. Embodiments include planning data for one or more finished goods, the one or more finished goods produced from one or more semi-finished goods stored in one or more tanks, identifying, from the planning data, planned production orders for the one or more finished goods in each time bucket of a planning period, modifying the planned production orders to satisf...