ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,989, issued on April 15, was assigned to Claryo Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for a virtual facility supporting robotics fleet control and sensor data simulation" was invented by Mohamed Amer (San Francisco), Dylan Bourgeois (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Stefan Nusser (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux (San Francisco), Kyle Marshall (New York), Josh Staker (Tigard, Ore.) and Nick Vander Valk (East Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual facility robotics system may include a storage system, a data engine, an integration system, a virtual facility interface system, and a simulator engine. The storage system m...