ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,877, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Driving robot apparatus, control method of the driving robot apparatus, and recording medium having recorded thereon computer program" was invented by Jeayun So (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihye Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangsik Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeonkyu Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a driving robot apparatus including a rotatable holder to which a cleaning pad is fixable, a method of controlling the driving robot ...