ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,541, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Triaging of robots in an industrial facility" was invented by Brendon Lu (Sugar Land, Texas) and Sandra Fabiano (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to triaging of robots at an industrial facility using generated snapshots that can be based on an operating status of various features of each particular robot. The snapshots can be generated from data generated by each robot and/or data observed for a particular robot, such as images captured of a particular robot. Each snapshot can be utilized to estimate a likel...