ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,490, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SITA Information Networking Computing USA Inc. (Atlanta).

"System and apparatus for resource management" was invented by Kevin O'Sullivan (Middlesex, Great Britain), Stephane Cheikh (Cointrin, Switzerland), Rico Andreas Barandun (Meyrin, Switzerland) and Andrew Eric Malinofsky (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource management system is disclosed for managing deployment of one or more mobile drive apparatus in a transport hub. The system can include a data input module configured to receive data from one or more data sources, said data relating to the transport hub. The system can i...