US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus to provide communication and transport for a robot of a smart community" (Georgia, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,898, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus to provide communication and transport for a robot of a smart community" 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 automatically downloads a software application and a routing map to a robot of a smart home (SH) in a smart community (SC); the application facilitates communication between the robot and a smart home controller (SHC) of ...