ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,372, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).
"Robot task scheduler with verified audit trail" was invented by Edward M. Hudak (Schwenksville, Pa.), Jason A. Cassaday (North Wales, Pa.) and Brian Andrew Squadroni (Philidelphia, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GUI is used to schedule a set of tasks for one or more robots to test samples using one or more instruments. A set of drivers are used to map instructions for the robots and instruments form a standardized format to a set of instrument/robot-specific formats. Using the standardized formats enables support for new types of robot and/or instrum...