ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,158, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems and methods for robot fleet management" was invented by James Gordon Wells (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implementation of a method of operation of a robot fleet management system, the robot fleet management system accesses a set of tasks available to be performed by a fleet of robots, accesses a respective power consumption for each task from the set of tasks, and accesses a respective power state of each robot in the fleet. The robot fleet management system allocates a selected robot to a selected ...