US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 7 for "Nonhuman social media presence" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,778, issued on July 7, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Nonhuman social media presence" was invented by Nigel Bradley (Canton, Ga.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Ari Craine (Marietta, Ga.) and Robert Koch (Norcross, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards devices (nonhuman entities) participating in social networks. Devices that join a nonhuman social network can share information, can learn from other devices, can assist in performing tasks and so forth. A device can search for an existing nonhuman social network that matches its crit...