US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Increasing strength of a robotic structure using swarm robot(s)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,549, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Increasing strength of a robotic structure using swarm robot(s)" 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: "A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a load that will be applied to a robotic structure, and determining whether the load, when applied to the robotic structure, would exceed a structural threshold of the robotic structure. In response to determining that the load, when applied to the robotic structure, would e...