ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,495, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile robot and control method therefor" was invented by Sanggyu Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a mobile robot and a control method therefor according to the present disclosure, a plurality of mobile robots located in an area confirm the positions of other mobile robots and operate in cooperation with each other to cooperatively clean then area. One mobile robot moves to follow the position of another mobile robot, so that the mobile robots with different cleaning types cooperate to clean the area. Accordingly, the pluralit...