ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,680, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Robotic fleet configuration method for additive manufacturing systems" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Brad Kell (Seattle), Teymour S. El-Tahry (Detroit), Andrew Cardno (San Diego) and Leon Fortin Jr. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring robot fleets with additive manufacturing capabilities includes receiving a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and determining a job definition data structure based on the request. The job definition data structure defines a se...