US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on March 3 for "Event-driven self-programmable robots in smart homes and smart communities" (Georgia, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,969, issued on March 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Event-driven self-programmable robots in smart homes and smart communities" 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, a method in which a processing system allocates resources of a smart community to respond to an event; the resources include robots in smart homes of the smart community having smart home controllers, and each robot includes a first group of software modules comprising a first...