US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for controlling multiple robots" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,529, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for controlling multiple robots" was invented by Prasad K.M. (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling multiple robots using a single HMI device includes having a Teach Pendant Unit Multiplexer (TPU-MUX) that allows multiple robots to remain connected to the single HMI device all at the same time. The system further allows the HMI device to communicate with at least one robot among the plurality of connected robots, at a time and to switch between a plurality of connected robots seamlessly."

The ...