ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,124, issued on July 1, was assigned to URSROBOT AI INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for controlling mobile robots" was invented by Chien-Tung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Hou Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao-Cheng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Wei Chiang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Jin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a plurality of mobile robots is to be implemented by a server that communicates with the plurality of mobile robots and a communication device. The server stores a predetermined working route related to a target area. The method includes steps of: receiving a working instruction from the commun...