ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,639, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Framework for robotic assistants" was invented by David Ferguson (San Francisco) and Jiajun Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining a request to remotely operate a robotic assistant, the robotic assistant including at least one sensor configured to collect data associated with an environment around the robotic assistant. The method also includes identifying a first teleoperations system to remotely operate the robotic assistant in response to the request, the first teleoperations system being on...