ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,966, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE IREMEDY HEALTHCARE Cos. INC. (Stuart, Fla.).

"Automation system and method" was invented by James A. Harding (Issaquah, Wash.), Anthony J. Paquin (Stuart, Fla.), Scott Thibault (Colchester, Vt.) and Jason A. Boatman (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for defining a data description model and a function description model for one or more of a plurality of machine-accessible supply-chain computing platforms; processing a complex supply-chain task to define a plurality of discrete supply-chain tasks e...