ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,488, issued on July 14, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Integrated communication kit for autonomous robots" was invented by Elizaveta Latash (Atlanta) and Clayton Kerce (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for controlling an autonomous robot. The method detects one or more signals received from one or more sensors on a user. The one or more signals can correspond to gestures associated with the user. The method determines a derivate of a signal of the one or more signals associated with a sensor of the one or more sensors. The method further determines a motion epoch associated with th...