ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,498, issued on March 31, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Deployment system for additive manufacturing robot fleet" was invented by Charles Howard 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 robotic fleet platform includes a fleet resources data store with a fleet resource inventory indicating additive manufacturing systems that can be provisioned with a set of fleet resources. The fleet resource inventory indicates 3D printing requirements, printing instructions, and a status of each additive manufacturing s...