ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,860, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robot sensor data management" was invented by Rita H. Wouhaybi (Portland, Ore.), Atul Hatalkar (Chandler, Ariz.), Hassnaa Moustafa (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siew Wen Chin (Penang, Malaysia) and Sangeeta Manepalli (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot may include a processor, configured to operate according to a first operational mode or a second operational mode, wherein the first operational mode comprises performing an environmental perception operation using first sensor data, wherein the first sensor data comprise no camera data, and wherein th...