ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,154, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot for expressing emotional state of pet and control method thereof" was invented by Jisun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunkyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yohan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes: a camera; a driver configured to control a motion of the robot; a memory configured to store information on a plurality of motions of the robot and a plurality of emotional states of a pet corresponding to the plurality of motions of the robot; and a processor connected to the driver, the camera, ...