ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,094, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and robot control method" was invented by Hankyeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungbeom Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyongsu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongmin Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwuk Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heewon Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junu Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes: a light and detection ranging ("Lidar") sensor; a driving module; a memory configured to store first map data corresponding to a first traveling space; and at least one processor confi...