ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,516, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Demand-responsive robot fleet management for value chain networks" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Brad Kell (Seattle), Teymour S. El-Tahry (Detroit), Andrew Cardno (San Diego) and Leon Fortin Jr. (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot fleet platform for preparing a job request includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions. The instructions include a job request ingestion system configured to receive job content relating to at least one of picking, packing, moving, storin...