ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,951, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile robot and control method thereof" was invented by Yun Jae Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Myung Hwa Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Min Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Seok Won Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment robot includes a communication device configured to communicate with a control server based on a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, a network device configured to determine a network connection sta...