ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,859, issued on July 1, was assigned to XYZ INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot arm system for making ice cream and method of controlling same" was invented by Sung Jae Hwang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a robot arm to make ice cream. The method of controlling includes: receiving ice cream order information; gripping an ice cream capsule disposed on a table using the gripper of a robot arm; placing the ice cream capsule on a capsule support; gripping a cup configured to accommodate ice cream using the gripper of the robot arm; moving the cup under the capsule support...