US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Effective handling of scrap material with swarm robots" (Indian, American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,633, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Effective handling of scrap material with swarm robots" was invented by Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico), Vinod A. Valecha (Pune, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for handling scrap material with swarm robots in a multi-machine environment is provided. The embodiment may include receiving images of scrap material in a multi-machine environment. The embodiment may also include dividing the scrap material into a plurality of zones. The embodimen...