ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,659, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Machine-learned robot fleet management for value chain networks" 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 system includes a fleet resources data store that maintains a fleet resource inventory indicating fleet resources that can be assigned to perform tasks. For each fleet resource, the inventory indicates features of each fleet resource and a respective status. A set of task definitions is accessible to an intelligence lay...