ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,851, issued on July 21, was assigned to RENU ROBOTICS CORP. (San Antonio).

"Digital twins of operating sites via autonomous vehicles" was invented by Michael Odell Blanton Jr. (San Antonio) and Aldo Napoleon Ortega (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are approaches for the centralized collection and sharing of "site-centric" data collected by one or more autonomous vehicles pertaining to an operating site for utilization by the site owner/operator in the performance of its supervisory functions at the operating site beyond (and even largely unrelated to) the immediate operations performed by the autonomous vehicle f...