ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,458, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot apparatus and controlling method thereof" was invented by Daesoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot apparatus includes a body part; a head part rotatably connected to the body part and having three rotational degrees of freedom; a driving device including a plurality of motors configured to provide rotational force to the head part in a pitch direction, a roll direction, and a yaw direction to drive movement of the head part; a microphone sensor configured to detect a voice of a user; and a processor conf...