ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,984, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot cleaner and controlling method thereof" was invented by Seongwook Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Woojin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot cleaner includes: a sensor; at least one memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor, by executing the one or more instructions, is configured to identify a plurality of objects based on sensing data acquired through the sensor, identify a target object located on a travel surface of the rob...