Patents by Inventor Jacob A. Volkmann

Jacob A. Volkmann 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: 20230316214
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing prioritization of specific items at specific times in a manner that is provided to an overseas transport logistics software program, and that provide for visibility and prediction of status and risks. In examples, a set of enterprise priorities may be input from a variety of enterprise planning teams into a prioritization software tool. The prioritization software tool may then, based on relative priorities of items currently scheduled for overseas transport, generate a prioritization of items included in pending purchase orders. The prioritization is made accessible to an overseas transport logistics software program. The prioritization may assign individual items to a set of tiers, with each tier having a different handling and overseas shipment prioritization. Shipment information is then received and consolidated, and a dynamic lead time is calculated. The dynamic lead time is utilized to automatically calculate a dynamic risk factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Logan Clemment, Hunter Christian Henke, John Jeatran, Carlos Llanes, Rachel Ann Schmidt, Krista Swedenburg, Jacob Volkmann
  • Publication number: 20120022913
    Abstract: In one embodiment of a computer-implemented method, layout data and product data is collected and a planogram development module processes this data to create multiple test planograms for a display space. Multiple potential planograms may be created by placing merchandise in a planogram using one or more optional rules permitting deformation of non-rigid products such as bags of non-fragile items, permitting product impingement into an adjacent shelf or peg space, allowing for hanging products on a pegboard vertically adjacent to a shelf, allowing product placement a set distance from a shelf or pegboard boundary and allowing two adjacent instances of the same product where those instances are in vertical alignment. In this embodiment, an optimized planogram is selected based on the criteria of packing efficiency, sell-through index, the aggregate sell-through index of each item multiplied by the item's profit margin, and/or overall planogram profitability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Volkmann, Ralph E. Thoman, Liju C. Paul, George Varughese, Lisa A. Miller