ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,232, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Guide robot and operation method thereof" was invented by Dongseon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jongo Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Soojin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Byungjoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Mihyun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungjin Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Munho Yun (Seoul, South Korea), Junghyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide robot can include a travel part to move the guide robot, a touch screen and a camera, a sensor to detect an approa...