ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,018, issued on May 27, was assigned to Al Inc. (Toronto).

"Autonomous versatile vehicle system" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Lukas Robinson (York, Canada) and Shahin Fathi Djalali (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for robotic collaboration, including a first robotic chassis including a memory storing instructions that when executed a processor effectuates operations including capturing data of an environment and data indicative of movement, generating a first map of the environment based on the captured data, and the robot executing a first part of a task. The system a...