US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Self-protection of robotic vehicles in invisible hazardous gaseous surrounding" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,877, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self-protection of robotic vehicles in invisible hazardous gaseous surrounding" was invented by Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method protect a robot in a hazardous environment. The method comprises detecting, with a hazardous environment detector, the presence of a hazardous gas within a bounded environment defining the boundaries of the hazardous environment, and detecting a wind flow speed an...