ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,406, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Flexxbotics Inc. (Boston).

"Robotic workflow recipe" was invented by Tyler M. Bouchard (Boston) and Tyler Modelski (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mesh network portal provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for invocation and management of a plurality of robotic workcells, such that each workcell includes a robot and associated peripherals for performing a job. The job fulfills a robotic task such as generating a part or other sequence of robotic instructions for a discrete, quantifiable work product. The portal is in network communication with a respective hub at a pluralit...