ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,424, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Datacenter detection and authentication techniques" was invented by Eden Grail Adogla (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the techniques disclosed herein may include monitoring, by a robotic device, a physical space, the physical space having a portion of a datacenter. In addition, the techniques may include detecting, by the robotic device, a person within the physical space. The techniques may include attempting to authenticate the detected person by an authentication process that includes: prompting, by the ro...