ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,662, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Simulating multiple robots in virtual environments" was invented by Matthew Bennice (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul Bechard (Ogdensburg, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are provided for operably coupling multiple robot controllers to a single virtual environment, e.g., to generate training examples for training machine learning model(s). In various implementations, a virtual environment may be simulated that includes an interactive object and a plurality of robot avatars that are controlled independently and contemporaneously by a corr...