ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,860, issued on March 18, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).
"Fault tolerant systems for distributed supervision of robots" was invented by Hugo Borne-Pons (Antibes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide systems, method, and computer-readable storage media for performing robotic tasks in a distributed and coordinated manner. A fleet of robots may use a sequence of messages to appoint supervisors for a set of tasks, where the supervisor robots are responsible for ensuring that their supervised tasks are completed by other robots of the fleet. The supervisors may solicit requests from other ro...