US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 2 for "Robot driving by controlling TOF LiDAR sensor and controlling method of the robot" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,991, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot driving by controlling TOF LiDAR sensor and controlling method of the robot" was invented by Jeayun So (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeyoon Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangsik Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a robot driven by controlling a time of flight (TOF) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor, and a driving method thereof. The robot outputs laser pulse signals of the TOF LiDAR sensor by switching a laser pulse signal of a short-range pulse energy and a laser pulse signal of a remote pu...