ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,716, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for controlling serving robot based on information from table" was invented by Mi-Young Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo-Han Yun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min-Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for controlling a serving robot based on meal context. The method includes receiving table information from a table robot corresponding to each table in a service area and controlling driving of a serving robot using the meal context and a navigation m...