US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "Robot operable to disembark from escalator and method of controlling same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,851, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot operable to disembark from escalator and method of controlling same" was invented by Hyunki Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngil Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot and method of controlling same, where the robot includes: a sensor; a driver; a memory storing an instruction; and a processor configured to execute the instruction to: identify, through the sensor, a height difference between a first stair and a second stair of an escalator, identify whether the robot is adjacent to a disemb...