US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on March 18 for "Disinfection robot capable of autonomous driving and automatic recognition of disinfection targets" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,859, issued on March 18, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Disinfection robot capable of autonomous driving and automatic recognition of disinfection targets" was invented by Kanggeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongsuk Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Woosub Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jun-Sik Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Soonkyum Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sona Kwak (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a disinfection robot capable of autonomous driving and recognition of a disinfection target. The disinfection robot includes: a recognition unit configured to generate r...