ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,846, issued on April 21, was assigned to HANKOOKROBOTICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Large-capacity cooking robot system performing large-capacity cooking through multiple modes" was invented by Chong Young Woo (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a cooking robot system may include a first kettle, a multi-joint robot, and a controller, and wherein the controller, when controlling a movement of the multi-joint robot to grip a cooking utensil, determines whether to rotate a gripper unit coupled to the multi-joint robot according to a kind of th...