ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,972, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically restoring Li-Fi communication" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for dynamically restoring light-based network communication (e.g., Li-Fi, etc.) between Li-Fi devices is disclosed. The approach includes identifying environmental situation such as location of Li-Fi devices, automaton robotics with moving parts, determining risk of obstacles by simulating (via machine learning) one or more scenarios that could potent...