ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,365, issued on Nov. 4.
"Using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect debris" was invented by Sri Sahasra Bikumala (Leander, Texas) and Sisira Bikumala (Leander, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a cleaning robot receives a debris notification indicating a presence of debris. The debris notification is received from a debris detector. The debris notification is sent based at least in part on the debris detector determining that the debris has a size that is: greater than a debris threshold and less than or equal to a maximum size that the cleaning robot is capable of removing. The cleaning robot determines that the ...