ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,880, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bastian Solutions LLC (Indianapolis).

"Human machine interface for robotic arm object recovery" was invented by Akash Madhu Jinandra (Boise, Idaho), Stephen Daniel Earl (Boise, Idaho), Dylan Rolleigh (Boise, Idaho) and Makarand Shyam Mandolkar (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated material handling system includes a robot configured to handle one or more items and an operator device. The robot is configured to send an alert to the operator device in response to a fault by the robot in handling at least one of the items. The robot is configured to receive instructions from th...