ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,598, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Task execution system for autonomous robot" was invented by Aiko Ohtsuka (Tokyo), Koichi Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan), Masuyoshi Yachida (Tokyo) and Hanako Bando (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scheduling system includes first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry stores, in a memory, information on a plurality of tasks to be executed by at least one mobile device. The information on the plurality of tasks includes information on an estimated amount of battery consumption of the at least one mobile device in executing each of the plurality ...