ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,865, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and method for controlling same" was invented by Dongwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjoong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Boseok Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot includes: controlling a driving apparatus to move the robot to a preset route; detecting an obstacle on the preset route; determining an entrance angle and an entrance velocity with which a rollover index of the robot is maintained within a preset range during climbing the obstacle; and controlling the driving ...