ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,909, issued on April 8, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"System having at least one plant system having at least a plurality of agents" was invented by Mathias Ams (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention teaches a system having at least one plant system having at least a plurality of agents, having at least a plurality of autonomous mobile robots, movable machinery, and a plurality of sensors for generating data for use for the safety relevant securing of the plant system, wherein a local plant safety system associated with the plant system is present, wherein data of the local plant saf...