ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,683, issued on July 29, was assigned to GrayMatter Robotics Inc. (Gardena, Calif.).

"System and method for health monitoring of a sanding pad during an autonomous finishing process" was invented by Miguel A. Chavez-Garcia (Long Beach, Calif.), Yi-Wei Chen (Torrance, Calif.), Cheng Gong (Gardena, Calif.), Shreyash Gotee (Los Angeles), Rishav Guha (Gardena, Calif.), Satyandra K. Gupta (Los Angeles), Shreeya Jain (Redondo, Calif.), Ariyan M. Kabir (Los Angeles), Ceasar G. Navarro (Los Angeles), Husein M. Noble (Los Angeles), Alessandra B. Palacios Puga (Long Beach, Calif.), Sagarkumar J. Panchal (Torrance, Calif.), Apoorva Patil (Los Angeles), Pragadeeshkumar Rajavel (Long Beach, Cal...