ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,537, issued on July 15, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Robot capable of identifying tunnels" was invented by Shih-Chin Lin (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Wei-Chung Wang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Guo-Zhen Wang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a moving robot including a first light source module and a second light source module respectively project a first light section and a second light section, which are vertical light sections, in front of a moving direction, wherein the first light section and the second light section cross with each other at a predetermined...