ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,613, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Unmanned machine synchronization using robotic sensing" was invented by Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.), Utpal Mangla (Toronto), Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas), Gerald Coon (Durham, N.C.), Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.) and Satishkumar Sadagopan (Leawood, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provides for a method of unmanned machine synchronization using robotic sensing. The method includes generating at least one physical signal in the vicinity of at least one unmanned machine. The at least one...