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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1998
Stanislav P. Bajuk, Austin, TX (US);
Cathy L. Blouin, Franklin, VT (US);
Gregory A. Blunt, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Gary D. Boldman, Jericho, VT (US);
Robert C. Juba, Manassas, VA (US);
Daniel A. McAuliffe, Burlington, VT (US);
Peter J. Miller, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Stephanie A. Miraglia, Burlington, VT (US);
Thomas C. Richardson, Huntington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of, computer system for, and computer program product for causally relating costs to products comprises, identifying resource costs for manufacturing the product, computing load factors for each of the resource costs, producing weighted resource costs based on the resource costs and the load factors, summing the weighted resource costs for the product, determining a volume of the product manufactured, and dividing the weighted resource costs by the volume to produce a weighted cost per product.