ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,338, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Motion control method of mobile robot and mobile robot" was invented by Shuai Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jingfan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Zhaoxiang Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiahao Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a motion control method of a mobile robot, a tactile touch operation on a sensing device of the mobile robot is received. The mobile robot is controlled to perform an interactive motion of a plurality of interactive motions that is associated with the tactile touch operation. Each...