ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,743, issued on May 6, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"System for intelligent transport between 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 determines that performance of a service is required at a first location in a smart community; identifies a robot to be transported, and determines whether physical transport or virtual transport is to be performed for the robot. If physical...