ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,939, issued on July 14, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and system for controlling robot configured with plurality of modular robots, and building in which robot is disposed" was invented by Younghwan Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kay Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Inhyeok Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot having a plurality of modular robots for performing requested service-related tasks includes individually controlling each of the plurality of modular robots through a robot control system without interactions between the plurality o...