ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,003, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Task management for robotic systems and applications" was invented by David Elliott (San Jose, Calif.) and Gordon Grigor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, behavior-based mission task management for mobile autonomous machine systems and applications are provided. A mission controller may generate a mission behavior model logic framework for a mission that accounts for the actions of a set of multiple task agents that play a role in completing the mission. The mission controller may assemble a framework starting from a baseline...