ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,375, issued on May 20, was assigned to KINAXIS INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for parameter optimization" was invented by Sebastien Ouellet (Ottawa), Phillip Williams (Ottawa), Nathaniel Stanley (Ottawa), Jeffery Downing (Ottawa) and Liam Hebert (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems that provide one or more recommended configurations to planners using large data sets in an efficient manner. These methods and systems provide optimization of objectives using a genetic algorithm that can provide parameter recommendations that optimize one or more objectives in an efficient and timely manner. The methods and sys...