ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,664, issued on June 24, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Methods and systems for robotic surface coverage" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (San Diego) and Lukas Fath (York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects provide a media storing instructions that when executed by a processor of a robot effectuates operations including: capturing first data indicative of a position of the robot relative to objects within the workspace and second data indicative of movement of the robot; generating or updating a map of the workspace based on at least one of: at least a part of the first data and at least a part of the second ...