ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,157, issued on July 15.
"Service robot" was invented by Mehdi Farhat (Munich), Christopher Durand (Munich), Tobias Riphaus (Munich), Clemens Beckmann (Ottobrunn, Germany), Naval Kishore (Munich), Layton Hern (Munich), Maik Siee (Munich), Gerd Wilsdorf (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany), Roland Ruhwandl (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany), Omer Can Sari (Munich) and Igor Likhomanov (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a service robot for providing services at the local vicinity of people. The service robot includes an autonomously driving base platform and a service unit mountable or mounted on the autonomously driving b...