US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 25 for "Mobile robot using artificial intelligence and controlling method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,887, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile robot using artificial intelligence and controlling method thereof" was invented by Jungmin Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jieun Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot of the present disclosure includes: a traveling unit configured to move a main body; a lidar sensor configured to acquire terrain information outside the main body; a camera sensor configured to acquire an image outside the main body; and a controller configured to fuse the image and a detection signal of the lidar sensor to select a front edge for...