ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,873, issued on April 29, was assigned to Teladoc Health Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.) and iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Clinical workflows utilizing autonomous and semi-autonomous telemedicine devices" was invented by Fuji Lai (Goleta, Calif.), Timothy C. Wright (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Yair Lurie (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Yulun Wang (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes various clinical workflows and other methods that utilize a telemedicine device in a healthcare network. According to various embodiments, a healthcare practitioner may utilize a remote presence interfaces (RPIs) on a remote acces...