ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,660, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Digital-twin-enabled robot fleet management" was invented by Charles H. Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Teymour S. El-Tahry (Detroit) and Leon Fortin Jr. (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital twin system includes a library of different types of robot operating unit digital twins stored in a storage system. The digital twin system includes one or more interfaces through which information associated with a physical robot operating unit corresponding to an instance of the robot operating unit digital twins is communicated....