ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,612, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc..
"Systems and methods for timeline visualization" was invented by Louis McNamee (Ottawa), Jeremie Boudin (Ottawa), Delisia Philip (Ottawa), Ivy Blackmore (Ottawa), Prabhakar Regmi (Ottawa), Sriprasadh Raghunathan (Ottawa) and Baz Ramadhan (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of timeline visualization that define a table structure which represents supply chain management actions in a generic way. The content of the table is then processed by the timeline visualization to extract the entities, events, their relationships, and their attributes. These entities are...