ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,753, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Orchestrating vehicles and remote operating clients" was invented by Christian Eggenberger (Wil, Switzerland), Kavitha Hassan Yogaraj (Bangalore, India), Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.) and Markus Van Kempen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for orchestrating operation of multiple vehicles includes detecting, based on a monitoring of a first remote operating client assigned to control the multiple vehicles, that the first remote operating client is to be replaced. Further, the method includes identifying, fr...