ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,127, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus, device, method and computer program for an autonomously acting machine or a computer system" was invented by Norbert Stoeffler (Graefelfing, Germany), Florian Geissler (Munich) and Michael Paulitsch (Ottobrunn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus for the autonomously acting machine comprises an interface for communicating with a computer system, wherein the computer system is separate from the autonomously acting machine. The apparatus includes a processor for executing machine-readable instructions for providing information about ...