US Patent Issued to XPO on June 17 for "Network-graph framework and optimization system for cargo routes" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,135, issued on June 17, was assigned to XPO Inc. (Greenwich, Conn.).

"Network-graph framework and optimization system for cargo routes" was invented by Charles Rosa (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Tanmaya Mathur (Seattle) and Eric Chriscinske (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the present disclosure include a system that can receive a predetermined set of routes for moving cargo through a network. The system can construct a model based on the predetermined set of routes, where the model defines a combinatorial optimization problem that is solvable to identify an optimal set of routes from the predetermined se...