US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 8 for "Methods and systems for identifying and replacing potential failure points in a logistics network" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,054, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for identifying and replacing potential failure points in a logistics network" was invented by Nicholas M. Wyckoff (Arlington, Va.) and Richard J. Thompson (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving information of a logistics network representing a factory and associated suppliers of parts, evaluating a first transit time required to receive parts across the logistics network, for each supplier of the associated suppliers creating a digital copy of the logistics network in which a node conne...