ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,498, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Maintenance aware robot-based delivery system" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India) and Sarbajit K Rakshit (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a computer system coordinate a robot-based delivery system. The method includes receiving performance information associated with a delivery robot indicative of operational parameters. The method includes determining maintenance tasks and a time required therefor pri...