ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,931, issued on April 29, was assigned to AGREENCULTURE (Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France).

"Method for control by a supervisor of at least one autonomous agricultural robot comprising geolocation means" was invented by Henri Appert (Toulouse, France), Emmanuel Goua de Baix (Colomiers, France) and Clement Baron (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for control by a supervisor of at least one autonomous agricultural robot comprising geolocation means, the supervisor transmitting periodic row allocation messages to the at least one autonomous agricultural robot, each of the agricultural robots co...