ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,239, issued on July 1, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Testing robotic software systems using perturbations in simulation environments" was invented by Vibhu Saujanya Sharma (Bangalore, India), Vikrant Shyamkant Kaulgud (Maharashtra, India), Jhilam Bera (West Bengal, India) and Adam Patten Burden (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations include providing a robotic model representative of a robotic system, determining baseline data by executing a simulation using the robotic model and a simulation world that represents the environment, generating, by a perturbation system, perturbations to ...