US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for inter-networking and multilevel control for devices in smart homes and smart communities" (Georgia, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,201, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus for inter-networking and multilevel control for devices in smart homes and smart communities" was invented by Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Paul Edward Smith Jr. (Heath, Texas) and Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system configures one or more robots to perform tasks in an establishment, and assigns to the robots privileges and/or priorities in accordance with a policy. The method also includes detecting a situation i...