ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,436, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device for controlling movement speed of robot and method therefor" was invented by Hyeon Seok Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea), Min Kyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Moon Sub Jin (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment device includes a memory configured to store a lookup table in which target speeds corresponding to genders and ages are recorded and a controller configured to detect a face from an image photographed by a camera provided in a robot, estim...