US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 18 for "Method for controlling robot, robot, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,863, issued on March 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for controlling robot, robot, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroshi Yahata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: detecting, through a sensor, a location and a movement direction of the user and an object around the user; specifying the type and the location of the detected object; if the object is a dangerous object and is located in the movement direction of the user, setting a relative position where the robot is to be located relative to the user to a lead position ahead of the use...