US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Aggregated capability derived from workers' skills and wearable robotic systems' capabilities" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,641, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Aggregated capability derived from workers' skills and wearable robotic systems' capabilities" was invented by Michael Boone (Lutz, Fla.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aggregating worker skills and wearable robotic system capabilities is provided. Details of an activity that a worker is preparing to perform utilizing a wearable robotic system are retrieved. Skills of the worker related to the activity are retrieved. Capabilities of...