ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,124, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Digital twin simulation for transportation" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Atul Mene (Morrisville, N.C.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive first object data associated with a first object to be transported. The processor may receive vehicle data associated with one or more potential vehicles for transportation of the first object. The processor may receive context data associated with a context for the transportation of the fi...