ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,255, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mobile robot and control method therefor" was invented by Minwoo Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangsik Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a robot. The robot according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a memory for storing at least one program; and a processor for executing instructions stored in the at least one program, wherein the processor can divide a travel map into a plurality of c...