ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,970, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for autonomous delivery robot-based delivery service" 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 an autonomous delivery robot-based delivery service are disclosed. An operating method of a delivery robot includes moving to a pick-up location through autonomous driving based on delivery information generated by a delivery robot service provider, loading go...