ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,223, issued on July 8, was assigned to Lucomm Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Robotic emulation device" was invented by Lucian Cristache (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic emulation device includes a processor, memory and multimedia interfaces to capture a video signal from a target device, analyze it, and transmit manipulation control signals to the target device input by emulating a peripheral input device, wherein the manipulation control signals determine manipulation or selection of a target interface control associated with a first user interface encoded and transmitted in the video signal. Furthermor...