ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,906, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot device for identifying movement path based on privacy zone and control method thereof" was invented by Jinah Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeeun Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiwoong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoin Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeojun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot device includes: a sensor; a memory storing map information corresponding to a predetermined space and including a plurality of zones; and a ...