US Patent Issued to Teladoc Health, iRobot on April 8 for "Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,172, issued on April 8, was assigned to Teladoc Health Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.) and iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot" was invented by Marco Pinter (Goleta, Calif.), Fuji Lai (Goleta, Calif.), Daniel Steven Sanchez (Summerland, Calif.), James Ballantyne (Santa Barbara, Calif.), David Bjorn Roe (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Yulun Wang (Goleta, Calif.), Charles S. Jordan (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Orjeta Taka (Peabody, Mass.) and Cheuk Wah Wong (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein. A telepr...