US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 8 for "Robot and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,538, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and control method thereof" was invented by Hyeontaek Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Saeyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongkook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Boseok Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes: a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor; a plurality of directional microphones; and at least one processor configured to: identify, based on sensing data obtained through the LiDAR sensor, an object in a vicinity of the robot, identify, based on the type of the object, a weight to apply ...