ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,387, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Canada).

"Systems and methods for simulating an operation of one or more automated tools within a nuclear facility" was invented by Mark Johannesson (Cambridge, Canada) and Wesley Hergert (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for simulating an operation of one or more automated tools within a nuclear facility. The system includes a communication component to provide access to one or more computing devices, one or more local controllers for processing command requests from the one or more computing devices for the one or more automated tools, and a ...