ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,811, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mobile robot and control method therefor" was invented by Euihyun Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinwook Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonyoung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a main body; a rotation portion which is disposed on a side surface of the main body and movably supports the main body; a storage box disposed inside the main body to store smell substances; a smell discharge passage formed to discharge smell from the storage bo...