ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,513, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Simulating collaborative equilibrium in multi-machine environment" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for simulating collaborative equilibrium in a multi-machine environment is provided. The embodiment may include receiving data relating to an activity and one or more machines to perform the activity. The embodiment may also include identifying specifications of one or more objects associated w...