ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,677, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"MSA-based robot control device and method for managing robot thereof" was invented by Jung Min Ryu (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Deuk Jun Kim (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Myung Hwa Ji (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Seok Won Kim (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control device and a robot management method thereof are provided. The robot control device includes a detection module that recognizes an abnormal state generated in at least one external robot based on raw data received from the at least o...