ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,786, issued on July 29, was assigned to INGRAM MICRO INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic SKU generation in distribution management" was invented by Sanjib Sahoo (Naperville, Ill.), Jim Annes (Porter Ranch, Calif.) and Dhamodharan Pathervellai (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided for automated SKU management. Embodiments include a user interface for receiving diverse catalog files, a Catalog Transformation module, a Real-Time Data Mesh (RTDM) module, a Master Data Governance (MDG) module, a Global Data Repository (GDR), and a Search Platform. The Catalog Transformation mo...