US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 26 for "Smart on-demand storage for robots" (Georgia, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,787, issued on May 26, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Smart on-demand storage for robots" 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 first, second, and third data respectively from first, second, and third physical robots operating in a smart community, obtaining a request message from the third physical robot, the request message comprising a request by the third physical robot to be stored at a location; and responsive to obtaining the ...