ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,584, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Robot and method for ascertaining a distance traveled by a robot" was invented by Reza Sabzevari (Hildesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiautonomous robot. The robot includes at least two powered locomotion devices and a monocular capture unit. The at least two locomotion devices are designed to rotate at least the capture unit about a rotational axis, which is situated in a fixed position relative to the capture unit, the capture unit and the rotational axis being set apart from each other. The robot further includes at least one cont...