ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,637, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Demand-responsive raw material management system" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.) and Andrew S. Locke (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A raw material system includes a product manufacturing demand estimation system programmed to calculate an expected demand for a product at a future point in time. An environment detection system identifies at least one of an environmental condition or an environmental event. A raw material production system estimates a raw material availability at the future poin...