ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,568, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Autonomous robot with on demand teleoperation" was invented by Samir Menon (Menlo Park, Calif.), Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.) and Gerald Brantner (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot is operated in an autonomous mode of operation to perform a plurality of tasks. It is determined that a later task of the plurality of tasks needs human assistance while performing a current task of the plurality of tasks. The human assistance is scheduled for the later task. A teleoperator is communicated with to perform the human assistance associate...