ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,342, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Third Wave Automation Inc. (Union City, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for supporting remote control operation of devices taking into consideration communications latency, environmental conditions, and/or a task to be performed" was invented by Katarina Bouma (Sacramento, Calif.), Connor Schenck (Dublin, Calif.) and Julian Mason (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments communications latency and/or bandwidth of a communications connection between a device being controlled a remote operator workstation being used to control the device is measured. One or more ...