ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,943, issued on July 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous object learning by robots triggered by remote operators" was invented by Gearoid Murphy (San Jose, Calif.) and Patrick Leger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a control system of a robotic device, data about an object in an environment from a remote computing device, where the data comprises at least location data and identifier data. The method further includes, based on the location data, causing at least one appendage of the robotic device to move through a predetermined learning motion path. The me...