ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,843, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and method for controlling thereof" was invented by Seongmin Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Heungwoo Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot is provided. The robot includes an image sensor, a driving part, a memory configured to store at least one instruction, and a processor, and the processor is configured to obtain a first image captured by the image sensor, obtain first information on an object included in the first image, control the driving part for the robot to approach the object, obtain a second imag...