US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "System for modeling the performance of fulfilment machines" (New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,909, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System for modeling the performance of fulfilment machines" was invented by Lei Cao (Worcester, Mass.), Brian Leo Quanz (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Ajay Ashok Deshpande (White Plains, N.Y.), Xuan Liu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Arun Hampapur (Norwalk, Conn.), Ali Koc (White Plains, N.Y.), Yingjie Li (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Yada Zhu (Westchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method and system of evaluating a fulfillment strategy in an omnichannel distribution system is provided. Input parameters are received from a co...