MULTI-FEATURE PRODUCT INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

Patent №

US 8,428,985

Granted

2013-04-23

Filed 2009

Owner

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12554643

A data store includes, for a dealer of interest, a target inventory mix rate for an item having a feature. A computing device is configured to perform an optimization to obtain a recommended feature allocation of the item including the feature by minimizing a difference between a projected inventory mix rate for the feature and the target inventory mix rate for the feature.

AI classification

Evolutionary computation1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.99
Knowledge representation0.94
Machine learning0.65
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

assignment · 232020447

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

assignment · 249120938

Assignors

PUSKORIUS, GINTARAS VINCENT, ANIOL, ROBBIE J., FRAVEL, WILLIAM RICHARD, GOODMAN, BRYAN ROGER, HUNSAKER, MELINDA KAYE, LIU, YU-NING, SADAKANE, SHIGERU

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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