ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,986, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile robot, docking station, and robot system including same" was invented by Heegu Park (Seoul, South Korea), Dongseong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeheon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsup Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a mobile robot traveling on the basis of power stored in a battery; and a docking station for charging the battery by supplying power through a charging cable, wherein each of the mobile robot and the docking station can include...