ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,061, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Management of autonomous mobile device disconnections" was invented by Aamir Husain (Jersey City, N.J.) and Derek Wade Ohlarik (Flemington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile device includes a processor to establish a Transmission Control Protocol Robot Operating System (TCPROS) connection over a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session between the AMD and a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) device that hosts an AMD controller in a cellular network, from the AMD the AMD controller. The processor may perform a mission in acc...