US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Internet of things (IoT) event-reactive robotic delivery rescheduling" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,027, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Internet of things (IoT) event-reactive robotic delivery rescheduling" was invented by Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Jessica Nahulan (Markham, Canada), Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.) and Randy A. Rendahl (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for triggering an event reactive delivery schedule adjustment. The method detects one or more events leading to a delay in a delivery schedule based on integrating IoT sensor data and real-time events. The method further triggers a reschedule event based o...