US Patent Issued to McKesson on Feb. 10 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for utilizing accumulation records to reduce network transactions" (Arizona, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,613, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to McKesson Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for utilizing accumulation records to reduce network transactions" was invented by Tate Williams (Loganville, Ga.) and Karen Padgett (Laveen, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for utilizing accumulation records to reduce a number of transactions occurring in a network. Aggregated quantities are calculated from at least a first quantity from a first sub-system and a second quantity from the second sub-system. Preliminary amounts may be reduced based on...