US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 3 for "Material movement control with swarm power generating robots" (American, Mexican, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,445, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Material movement control with swarm power generating robots" was invented by Michael Boone (Lutz, Fla.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Randy A. Rendahl (Raleigh, N.C.) and Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for controlling material movement with swarm power generating robots in a multi-machine environment is provided. The embodiment may include receiving data relating to an activity and one or more material handling devices to perform the activity. The embodiment may also include i...