US Patent Issued to Coupa Software on Nov. 25 for "Supply chain route modeling with unmanned aerial vehicle segments" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,936, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Supply chain route modeling with unmanned aerial vehicle segments" was invented by Chien-Yi Tsai (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Mohd Hafiz Bin Hasan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system disclosed herein receives input information relating to an unmanned aerial vehicle, ground delivery assets, and user preferences or configurations for delivery routes. The system processes the inputted information and determines an optimized delivery route that utilizes the unmanned aerial vehicle and the ground delivery assets. In an emb...