US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 14 for "Guide dog robot for the visually impaired persons and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,044, issued on April 14, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Guide dog robot for the visually impaired persons and control method thereof" was invented by Ki In Na (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide dog robot for visually impaired persons is provided. The guide dog robot includes a harness unit configured to grip a visually impaired person, a spring damper unit connected to the harness unit and configured to move in an axial direction, based on an external force acting between the visually impaired person and the guide dog robot, and a body part con...