ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,857, issued on March 25, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Rule-based systems and methods for customizing complex business solutions" was invented by Zbigniew Paul Rachniowski (Ottawa), Steve McStravick (Ottawa), Eduardo Rivero (Ottawa), Andrei Anisenia (Ottawa) and Fekadeab Dejene (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method than generate an effective recipe file by selecting at least one of a functionality, a feature and a configuration option from a master recipe database, the selecting based on a business objective; and generating a customized resource by applying the effective recipe file to a first working c...