ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,778, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HL ROBOTICS Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Control method and device of mobile robot" was invented by Jaewan Ahn (Yongin, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of controlling a mobile robot. The method includes: calculating a traveling speed and a rotation speed of a mobile robot traveling based on a first traveling route; changing a first area for detecting an obstacle based on at least a portion of the calculated traveling speed and rotation speed of the mobile robot; and when an obstacle is detected in the changed first area, determini...