ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,089, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HL Robotics Co. Ltd. (Seongnam, South Korea).
"Swarm robot control apparatus and method" was invented by Joonhoo Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swarm robot control apparatus and method according to various aspects of the present disclosure can improve the patrol and surveillance efficiency of swarm robots. The swarm robot control apparatus includes: an area designation unit that designates assigned areas for a plurality of robots based on respective current locations of the plurality of robots including a first robot; a start point selection unit that selects one o...