ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,732, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Polaris3D Co. Ltd. (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and robot for setting automatic arrival location on map and optimizing route based on data" was invented by WooKyong Kwon (Pohang-si, South Korea), HakJun Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea), Myeong Geun Park (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Su Yeong Park (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic arrival location on a map and data-based route optimization, includes: generating, by one or more processors of a robot, a 2D LiDAR map using ...