US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Oct. 21 for "Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,534, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling" was invented by Matthew C. Gombolay (Atlanta) and Zheyuan Wang (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary scheduler system and method are disclosed that can schedule a plurality of heterogenous robots to perform a set of tasks using heterogeneous graph attention network models. The exemplary scheduler system and method can outperform other work in multi-robot scheduling both in terms of schedule optimality and the total number of feasible schedules found and also in a sc...