ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,060, issued on May 27, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Value chain network planning using machine learning and digital twin simulation" was invented by Charles H. Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Andrew Cardno (San Diego), Jenna Parenti (Denver), Andrew S. Locke (Farmington, Mich.), Brad Kell (Seattle), Teymour S. El-Tahry (Detroit), Leon Fortin Jr. (Providence, R.I.), Andrew Bunin (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.), Kunal Sharma (Mumbai, India), Taylor Charon (Troy, Mich.), Hristo Malchev (Alta Loma, Calif.), Eric P. Vetter (Cary, N.C.), David Stein (Fairfax, Va.) and Benjamin D. Goodman (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pat...