ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,493, issued on April 14, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Automated baggage handling carts and systems" was invented by Paul Michael Barsamian (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes broadcasting, by one or more computing devices, a request that indicates a need for a number of carts at a location; receiving confirmation from one or more carts that accept the request, the one or more carts are carts that are close to the location; sending instructions to the one or more carts instructing the one or more carts to navigate to t...