US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on June 3 for "System and method for automated operation and maintenance of a robot system" (Georgia, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,948, issued on June 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for automated operation and maintenance of a robot system" 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, determining, by a robot of a group of robots, a condition of the robot to obtain a determined result. A corrective plan is identified responsive to the determined result indicating a deficiency and a determination is made as to whether the robot is configured to perform the cor...