ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,334, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Greensea Systems Inc. (Richmond, Vt.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for supervising remotely operated vehicles over sparse datalinks" was invented by Benjamin W. Kinnaman (Bolton, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses for operating a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) over a communications network that includes at least one sparse datalink that hampers remotely controlling the ROV in real time or near real time. In some embodiments, remote operation of the ROV is enabled by locating a local awareness/autonomy edge-processing node on the ROV side of the sparse datalink(s) and configu...