ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,674, issued on June 24, was assigned to Brain Corp. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for enhancing performance and mapping of robots using modular devices" was invented by Botond Szatmary (San Diego) and David Ross (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing task performance and computer readable maps produced by robots using modular sensors is disclosed herein. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, robots may perform a first set of tasks, wherein coupling one or more modular sensors to the robots may configure a robot to perform a second set of tasks, the second set of tasks in...