ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,576, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Autonomous mobile robot scaling" was invented by Ruchika Chawla Singh (Chandler, Ariz.), Rita Chattopadhyay (Chandler, Ariz.), Siew Wen Chin (Penang, Malaysia) and Sangeeta Manepalli (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot including a resource sharing circuit, configured to operate according to a resource utilization limit, and comprising a processor, configured to receive resource data representing a resource utilization of the robot; if the resource utilization of the robot is within a predetermined range, operate according to a first operat...