ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,682, issued on July 28, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for interworking between autonomous driving delivery robot and transportation infrastructure" was invented by Taehyoung Shim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Jun Seob Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeongil Yim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for interworking between an autonomous delivery robot and a transportation infrastructure are disclosed. A method of operating a delivery robot service provider that manages a delivery robot, the method may include: genera...