US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Cooperative use of autonomous machines" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,695, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cooperative use of autonomous machines" was invented by Asim Munawar (Demarest, N.J.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes analyzing an object to be manipulated by a primary autonomous machine, the analyzing including determining one or more operations to be performed to manipulate the object for a desired purpose. The method also includes, based on the analyzing, determining whether the primary autonomous machine has...