US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Material movement track to assist robotic arm" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,941, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Material movement track to assist robotic arm" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Rasika Ashirwad Vyawahare (Pune, India) and Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for improving robotic automation systems, a processor receives a request for a set of materials for an activity to be performed. A processor identifies one or more materials of the set of materials. A processor determines a sequence of operations to move the one or more materials. A processor pr...