ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,038, issued on April 14, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI ROBOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Motion control method and robot" was invented by Guokang Sun (Beijing), Sheng Cao (Beijing), Quanbin Xin (Beijing), Yinghao Gao (Beijing), Zebang Zhang (Beijing), Zeyu Ren (Beijing), Chenguang Sun (Beijing), Jiajun Zhang (Beijing), Wenping Guo (Beijing) and Diyun Xiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion control method applied to a robot and the robot are provided. The method includes: obtaining a music file to be performed, where the music file includes a plurality of playing times and at least one played musical instrument at...