US Patent Issued to HITACHI on March 18 for "Delivery date answering apparatus and delivery date answering method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,478, issued on March 18, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Delivery date answering apparatus and delivery date answering method" was invented by Kenji Oya (Tokyo), Tazu Nomoto (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ogura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery date answering apparatus includes: an order quota calculation and disclosure unit for calculating surplus inventory of a product in a demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are forecasted, using the actual inventory and a sales plan of the demand forecast channel, and transfer the surplus inventory to an orderable quota for a non-demand forecast c...