ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,497, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to URSrobot AI Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for preventing a robot from colliding with another robot" was invented by Chien-Tung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Hou Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao-Cheng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Jin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Dien-Lin Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing a robot from colliding with another robot that is provided with an identifying image includes steps of: controlling the robot to move along a predetermined path; stopping the robot when it is determined that a first image captured by the robot while the robot is movin...