ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,793, issued on June 23, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for remote control of robot, and building having elevators for robots" was invented by Su Won Chae (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ka Hyeon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remote control of a robot includes specifying a target robot for which a boarding event with respect to a movement means has occurred; controlling driving of the target robot in response to the movement means stopping at a specific area where the target robot is located so that the target robot boards the movement means; on the...