ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,830, issued on June 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) enabled adaptive/configurable internet-of-things (IoT) services" was invented by Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Paul Edward Smith Jr. (Heath, Texas) and Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining sensor data relating to a body part of a user, determining one or more adjustments to a shape or a structure of the device based on the sensor data, resulting in one or more determined adjustments, and causing the one or more...