ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,486, issued on July 14, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea) and KYONGGI UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY & ACADEMIA COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot" was invented by Taewon Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hwa Soo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Garam Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jiseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Joohyun Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Doopyo Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Hobyeong Chae (Seoul, South Korea) and Myoungjae Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a robot. A robot...