ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,715, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and controlling method thereof" was invented by Kyuho Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Muwoong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongmyeong Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangkyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiho Chu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot is provided. The robot includes a sensor, a driver, a communication interface, and a processor configured to acquire first context data through the sensor, receive second context data acquired by at least one other robot through the communication interface, identify...