ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,687, issued on July 28, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"MASEP: the marine automatic swarm experiment platform" was invented by Jinzhi Cai (Atlanta), Scott Mayberry (Atlanta) and Fumin Zhang (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine automatic swarm experiment platform (MASEP) system, comprising a plurality of marine robots, an aquatic testbed, and a server. Each of the plurality of marine robots can comprise one or more sensors configured to sense one or more conditions in an environment. The aquatic testbed is configured to generate position data indicative of a real-time position of each of the plurali...