ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,482, issued on July 21.
"Authenticated self-delivery and energy-aware dispatch for renting autonomous service robots" was invented by Samara Aldahwi (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server-coordinated, authenticated self-delivery system for renting autonomous service robots is disclosed. A server receives a task request, computes an energy-feasible self-delivery and return plan that enforces a travel radius and reserve margin, and assigns a robot only if a total power budget condition is met. The server generates a time-limited activation token bound to a nonce and a per-robot secret and derives a human-enterable short c...