US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 13 for "Selective interaction of robotic device with additional computing device(s)" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,471, issued on May 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective interaction of robotic device with additional computing device(s)" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to a robotic computing device that can seek additional information from other nearby device(s) for fulfilling a request and/or delegating certain operations to the other nearby device(s). Delegating certain operations can involve the robotic computing device maneuvering to a location of a nearby device and soliciting the nearby dev...