ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,719, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Robot planning for concurrent execution of actions" was invented by Stoyan Gaydarov (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for robotics planning. One of the methods comprises receiving data defining multiple skills to be performed by one or more robots in an operating environment; invoking a projection function implemented by each skill, wherein the projection function generates a skill footprint specifying resources requested for perfo...