ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,346, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and control method thereof" was invented by Jaeha Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soonbeom Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeonjun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junyeong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drivable robot includes: at least one sensor; a driver; at least one processor; and memory storing one or more instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the robot to: based on identifying a revolving door in a photographed image obtained by the at least one sensor, identify free spac...