ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,883, issued on March 25, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).
"Mopping extension for a robotic vacuum" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Renee Bautista (San Francisco) and Soroush Mehrnia (Helsingborg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning a workspace, including: autonomously moving, with a mechanism of a robot, a cloth of a mopping assembly of the robot upwards and downwards relative to a work surface of the work space. The cloth is disengaged from the work surface when the cloth is moved upwards relative to the work surface such that the cloth is not in contact with the work surface. The c...