US Patent Issued to Intel on April 15 for "Multimodal intent recognition for telepresence robots" (American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,156, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multimodal intent recognition for telepresence robots" was invented by Sangeeta Manepalli (Chandler, Ariz.) and Siew Wen Chin (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling a telepresence robot, sometimes referred to as a receiver. The systems and methods may include obtaining environmental data associated with the receiver and/or an operator of the telepresence robot, sometimes referred to as a sender. A model defining a human intent may be received and an intent of a human proximate the receiver and...