ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,044, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Unmanned delivering robot capable of being wirelessly charged during delivery and unmanned charging drone therefor" was invented by Jong Min Oh (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea) and Jong Kyu Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned delivery robot capable of being wirelessly charged during delivery, the unmanned delivery robot includes a wireless power reception module, a processor, and a storage medium recording one or more programs configured to be executable by the processor. The processor in...