US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Robot sensing animal waste located indoors and controlling method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,990, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot sensing animal waste located indoors and controlling method thereof" was invented by Duckhwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes a gas collector; a gas sensor configured to sense a gas collected by the gas collector; a camera; a driver; and a processor configured to: based on the gas sensed by the gas sensor identified as a first type gas, control the driver to decrease a moving speed of the robot, identify a gas generating area based on data sensed by the gas sensor while the robot is moving at...