ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,814, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot and control method therefor" was invented by Minju Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot is provided. The robot includes a depth camera, a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor acquires a first depth image including first depth information by using the depth camera, acquires second depth information corresponding to a first area of the first depth image by using the LIDAR sensor, acquires a depth difference between the second depth informa...