ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,017, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing robotic device performance" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India) and Sowjanya Rao (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive environment data associated with one or more robotic devices and an environment. The one or more robotic devices may be configured to perform one or more activities in the environment. The processor may analyze the environment data and the one or more activities in the environment...