ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,820, issued on Sept. 23.

"Wireless autonomous agent platform" was invented by Hendrik J Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of tape agents includes an autonomous master wireless tape agent. The autonomous wireless tape agent includes a first wireless communications interface type operative to communicate over a wireless communications link with an associated secondary wireless agent. The autonomous master wireless tape agent corresponds to a child node in a wireless agent hierarchy. The secondary wireless agent includes a second wireless communications inter...