ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,137, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Robot and method for controlling the same" was invented by Jihoon Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taegyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinwook Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot or a cleaning robot is provided. The robot includes a housing forming an external appearance of the robot, a cover configured to be coupled at a lowermost part of the housing, and at least one or more sensor structures positioned between the housing and the cover. The sensor structure includes a conductive plate and a sensor electrode o...