ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,372, issued on May 19.

"Inspection and assessment based on mobile edge-computing" was invented by Younuskhan Mohamed Iynoolkhan (Rolling Meadows, Ill.), Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.), Nilesh Malpekar (Lincolnshire, Ill.) and Charles Peavie (Lake Villa, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may receive, at a field vehicle, field data from one or more unmanned autonomous vehicles, where the field data may be indicative of an item for assessment. Edge-computing, based on machine learning techniques, may be performed at the field vehicle to identify one or more characteristics of...