US Patent Issued to Ingram Micro on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for automated configuration to order and quote to order" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,904, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ingram Micro Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated configuration to order and quote to order" was invented by Sanjib Sahoo (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computerized systems and methods are disclosed for automating Configure to Order (CTO) and Quote to Order (QTO) processes. Methods include receiving user inputs for desired product configurations, retrieving corresponding data from a bill of materials database, and calculating optimized pricing through intelligent rules based on real-time market data. Automated quotes are generated and transferred to orders ...