ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,716, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Configuration of robots to execute an activity" was invented by Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuration of robots to execute an activity includes receiving activity data associated with at least one activity to be executed in an activity area. A plurality of activity parameters are determined based on the activity data. One or more robotic parameters associated with a plurality of robots are obtained. A set of robots from ...