ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,097, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Use of a single SKU for product throughout life cycle" was invented by James Ramirez (Littleton, Colo.), Laurel Dumonteil (Centennial, Colo.) and Christopher George (Lees Summit, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracing an inventory item from an inventory is provided. In one example, the method includes: obtaining a single SKU and assigning the single SKU to an inventory item of an inventory; generating a single SKU profile for the inventory item according to the single SKU and storing the single SKU profile in an inventory SKU data model, t...