ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,312, issued on April 22, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Robot staging area management" was invented by David Emerson (Coppell, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for managing mobile robots in a robot staging area. In various implementations, a state of a mobile robot transitioning from a production mode to a staging mode may be determined. A state of a plurality of robot staging stations may also be determined. The plurality of robot staging stations may include at least one each of a charging station and a maintenance station. Based at least in part on the determined states of...