ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,678, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"What if scenario planning-updating a base plan version" was invented by Darren Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srinivas Vemuri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Francis Wang (Foster City, Calif.), Christof Bornhoevd (Belmont, Calif.) and Mark Thompson (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for updating a base version of a hypercube are provided. The method includes (i) obtaining a request for a planning session with respect to a hypercube; and (ii) in response to obtaining the request: (a) determining that the planning session uses a base versio...