Patents by Inventor Alan Dybvig

Alan Dybvig has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080065437
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing planned profitability and network design. The system integrates sales and marketing planning and budgeting with the supply chain. This integration is achieved by inclusion of data representative of non-physical sales, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs, by development of response curves including sales and marketing SG&A costs, and by development of capacitation cost curves including nonphysical SG&A costs and supply chain costs. The optimality of the plan according to the present invention is made possible by applying optimization techniques to the integrated data. The optimality of the network design according to the present invention is made possible by making demands available for optimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventor: Alan Dybvig