ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,779, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-reconfigurable robot controller" was invented by Alejandro Ibarra Von Borstel (Manchaca, Texas), Fernando Ambriz Meza (Manchaca, Texas), Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany), Jose Rodrigo Camacho Perez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Hector Cordourier Maruri (Guadalajara, Mexico), Paulo Lopez Meyer (Zapopan, Mexico), Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany), Julio Zamora Esquivel (West Sacramento, Calif.) and Jose Miguel Hernandez Miramontes (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-reconfigurable controller for a robot, including: input/output (I/O) inter...