ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,070, issued on May 27, was assigned to Robust AI Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Robotic social interaction" was invented by Rodney Allen Brooks (San Francisco), Dylan Bourgeois (San Francisco), Crystal Chao (San Francisco), Alexander Jay Bruen Trevor (San Francisco), Mohamed Rabie Amer (San Francisco), Anthony Sean Jules (Hillsborough, Calif.), Gary Fred Marcus (Vancouver, Canada) and Michelle Ho (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot may identify a human located proximate to the robot in a physical environment based on sensor data captured from one or more sensors on the robot. A trajectory of the human through space may...