US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on June 23 for "Predictive path coordination in multi-robot systems" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,817, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Predictive path coordination in multi-robot systems" was invented by Zixiang Nie (Tampa, Fla.) and Kwang-Cheng Chen (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for operating a multi-robot system (MRS) are disclosed. An example method can include receiving at least one transportation task; determining an optimal path for executing the at least one transportation task based at least in part on: (i) one or more transportation task parameters, (ii) a shared global critic function accessible to the first robot and the at least one addi...