ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,907, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Analysis and correction of supply chain design through machine learning" was invented by Phillip Williams (Ottawa), Zhen Lin (Kanata, Canada), Behrouz Haji Soleimani (Halifax, Canada), Seyednaser Nourashrafeddin (Ottawa), Chantal Bisson-Krol (Kanata, Canada) and Marcio Oliveira Almeida (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic supply chain planning system for analysis of historical lead time data that uses machine learning algorithms to forecast future lead times based on historical lead time data, weather data and financial data related to locations ...