ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,524, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically controlling damping in an industrial environment" was invented by Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product are configured to: determine a location in an industrial system and an amount of mass based on predicting, using a digital twin of the industrial system, that adding the amount of mass to the location will reduce a vibration in the industrial system; and control a robot to posi...