ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,537, issued on March 17, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Modular robot with power management platform" was invented by Brett Butler (Austin, Texas), Eric Santana (Austin, Texas) and Adam Loeckle (Argyle, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system that, itself, includes a base subsystem. The base subsystem may include a mobility device that is configured to move the base subsystem along a surface. The system also may also include a set of sensors that are physically coupled to the base subsystem and are communicatively coupled to the mobility device in a manner than enables the ...