ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,012, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing uninterrupted remote control of a production device via virtual reality devices" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India) and Satyam Jakkula (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for providing uninterrupted remote control of a production device are provided. Aspects include obtaining a production task to be performed using the production device, identifying a remote worker, from a remote worker database, t...