ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,086, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to isee (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for managing a yard" was invented by Ripudaman Singh Arora (Medford, Mass.), Theodore Raymond Moke (Brookline, Mass.), Robert Daniel Leary (Tyngsborough, Mass.), Ning Wang (East Boston, Mass.) and Le Yu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of associating at least one asset with a bounded region in a yard is presented, the method including determining a virtual map of the yard including one or more bounded regions, bounded regions of the one or more bounded regions being regions in the yard where the at least one asset may be place...