ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,499, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Jingdong Technology Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Docking apparatus, mobile robot, and docking method for docking apparatus" was invented by Zhetao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a docking apparatus, a mobile robot, and a docking method for the docking apparatus. The docking apparatus comprises a processor and a plurality of photosensitive devices electrically connected to the processor, wherein the processor determines, from the plurality of photosensitive devices, a photosensitive device receiving a laser light, the lase...