ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,636, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NEUROMEKA Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Collaborative robot having collision detection function and collision detection method of cooperative robot" was invented by Jong Hoon Park (Namyangju-si, South Korea) and Young Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a collaborative robot comprising: a main body robot; an additional shaft robot that moves the main body robot along the additional shaft; and a processor unit that transmits and receives signals to and from the main body robot and the additional shaft robot, wherein the processor unit compris...