ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,410, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Proactive preparation of repair service site" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and/or computer program products predictively automating configurations of modular service zones servicing physical assets, maximizing reuse of service zone(s) and optimizing time for servicing a plurality of physical assets. Digital twin models of physical assets are classified, and arranged into workflows for the service zones, sequencing services perform...