ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,705, issued on March 25, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Robot, robot control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Hirokazu Hasegawa (Koganei, Japan), Miyuki Urano (Akiruno, Japan), Yoshihiro Kawamura (Fussa, Japan) and Chihiro Toyama (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The robot includes a storage unit and a control unit. The control unit acquires outside stimulus feature amounts that are feature amounts of an outside stimulus acting from outside, stores the acquired outside stimulus feature amounts in the storage unit as a history, compares outside stimulus fe...