ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,102, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AGTONOMY (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Autonomous replenishment of resources" was invented by Timothy Bucher (Geyserville, Calif.), Steven Holmes (Redwood City, Calif.), Robert Culbertson (South San Francisco, Calif.), Harjot Bal (South San Francisco, Calif.), Aaron Leiba (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Nicholas Fischer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural vehicle that includes a removable energy module configured to provide energy to power operations of the agricultural vehicle and a connection interface. The connection interface is configured to autonomous mechani...