ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,924, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to schedule autonomous mobile device tasks" was invented by Robert Franklin Ebert (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Chandra Mohan Krishnamurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Hani Abdo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arkojit Ghosh (Mountainview, Calif.) and Sandeep Samdaria (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile device (AMD) performs operations associated with task requests received from sources such as user input, internal or external processes, and so forth. A task request may comprise adaptive and non-adaptive conditions. Adaptive conditions may b...