ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,665, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Gi Yong Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control apparatus can include a memory storing computer-executable instructions and at least one processor that accesses the memory and executes the instructions. The at least one processor can obtain a standard behavior tree satisfying a target format, from a behavior tree, based on a behavior tree abstraction model applied to interpretation of the behavior tree, store a robot scen...