ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,306, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP INC. (Boston).

"Data structures in an orchestration engine" was invented by Vahid Rashidi (Boston), Zijia Xu (Boston), Javier Anta Callersten (Boston), Roelant Lennert Claudius Kalthof (Boston), Sebastian Bak Adamek (Boston) and Connie Gao (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising of an orchestration engine that allows for optimizing of investment allocation across plural levers, the orchestration engine configured to: receive input data that includes historic data regarding pricing and sales according to plural levers; prepare the received in...