ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,358, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Yujin Robot Co. Ltd. (Incheon, South Korea) and Miele & Cie. KG (Gutersloh, Germany).

"Apparatus for detecting and removing dynamic obstacle for robot and operating method thereof" was invented by Seong Ju Park (Incheon, South Korea), Myung Kyo Jeong (Incheon, South Korea) and Jae Young Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus for detecting and removing a dynamic obstacle of a robot and the operating method thereof according to a predetermined exemplary embodiment detect and remove the dynamic obstacle while simultaneously performing the mapping and the localizing ...