ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,974, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SEEGRID Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Method for abstracting integrations between industrial controls and mobile robots" was invented by Andrew DiFurio (Pittsburgh), Stephen Ramusivich (McMurray, Pa.), Ryan Schwiebert (Pittsburgh) and Krutarth Shah (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided that monitor and control, in real time, access to a plurality of resource entities usable by robotic vehicles during workflow. The system can comprise a plurality of industrial controllers each coupled to at least one presence detector configured to detect a state of availability of...