ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,772, issued on July 29, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods and systems for inventory planning and control" was invented by Joshua Wing (Minneapolis), Molly S. Brown (Minneapolis), Adnan Hasanbhai (Osseo, Minn.), Michael Staab (Minneapolis), Aashimi Bhatia (Karnataka, India), Shriram Prabhu (Karnataka, India), Anshika Chaurasia (Karnataka, India), Vignesh J (Karnataka, India), Sayak Chowdhury (Karnataka, India), Abhijith Neerkaje (Karnataka, India) and Manju Pandit (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for visualizing an inventory management and control. One method comprises recei...