ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,722, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Building a robot mission based on mission metrics" was invented by Brendon Bao-An Lu (Parker, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and robot management systems for building a robot mission based on mission metrics are described, including: providing a data record of mission files associated with a set of recorded robot missions; receiving an input from a user including an indication of one or more robot-agnostic tasks to be performed with respect to an environment; determining first contextual information associated with the one or more robot-agnostic tas...