ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,816, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Automated machine collaboration" was invented by Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.), Omesh Tickoo (Portland, Ore.), Anahit Tarkhanyan (Cupertino, Calif.), Vinayak Honkote (Bangalore, India) and Stanley Mo (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various aspects, controller for an automated machine may include: a processor configured to: compare information about a function of the automated machine with information of a set of tasks available to a plurality of automated machines; negotiate, with the other automated machines of the plur...