Reverse Sourcing of Product Returns Based on Restorage Cost Models

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Published March 31st, 2026

Detected March 31st, 2026

Summary

USPTO granted patent US12591850B1 to Blue Yonder Group, Inc. covering a system and method for reverse sourcing of product returns based on restorage cost models. The patent includes claims for detecting return requests, predicting demand at restorage sites, calculating restorage costs, and recommending restorage plans based on item thresholds and geographic range.

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USPTO granted patent US12591850B1 to Blue Yonder Group, Inc. on March 31, 2026. The patent covers a system and method for modeling restorage cost for reverse sourcing of product returns, including detecting customer return requests, identifying supply types, predicting demand at potential restorage sites in a supply chain network, calculating restorage costs, and recommending restorage plans based on item threshold values. The system also identifies restorage sites based on geographic range and assigns manual quality checks for item verification.

This is a routine patent grant with no regulatory compliance requirements. Companies involved in reverse logistics, supply chain management, or product returns management should be aware of this intellectual property when developing similar systems or processes to avoid potential infringement issues.

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System and method of reverse sourcing of product returns based on restorage cost models

Grant US12591850B1 Kind: B1 Mar 31, 2026

Assignee

Blue Yonder Group, Inc.

Inventors

Abhijeet Sharma, Mayank Tiwari, Pankaj Rathoure, Priyanka Koushik, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for modeling restorage cost for reverse sourcing of regular items. The method includes detecting a return request from a customer for an item, identifying a supply type for the item, predicting a demand for the item at potential restorage sites in a supply chain network, deriving a likelihood of potential restorage sites meeting service level agreements, and calculating a restorage cost for each of the potential restorage sites, and based on the calculated restorage costs, recommend a restorage plan to a user, where the recommended restorage plan is based, at least in part, on a threshold value of the item. The method further includes identifying the potential restorage sites based, at least in part, on a geographic range and assigning a manual quality check to verify a condition of the item.