ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,858, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Driving route generation method and system" was invented by Hyeon Guk Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Young Gi Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), So Yeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Il Yong Eom (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating driving routes of a plurality of mobile robots including generating a plurality of virtual driving lines in a driving space, generating a pattern of driving behaviors of the mobile robots based on the plurality of generated virtual driving lines, inputting an initial position and a...