ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,842, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Christian von Reventlow (Munich).

"Service robot system, robot and method for operating the service robot" was invented by Christian von Reventlow (Munich), Thomas Krieger (Putzbrunn, Germany) and Jude Ng (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention regards a service robot system comprising a robot and a learning method for the system. The robot has a drive system and at least one effector. The system's processing unit determines a task to be executed by the robot and controls the drive system and the effector according to the task. The processing unit automatically retrieves action d...