US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on April 1 for "Robot-based waiter operation based on monitoring of customer consumption activity" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,573, issued on April 1, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Robot-based waiter operation based on monitoring of customer consumption activity" was invented by Motonobu Kawamura (Kamagaya Chiba, Japan) and Masashi Fukuda (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot service providing system includes a table monitoring terminal associated with one of a plurality of tables in a venue, a central control terminal, and a movable waiter robot. The central control terminal includes a communication interface, a display, an operation panel, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the display to displ...