ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,641, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).
"Autonomous refuse container" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an autonomous robot to empty refuse. A sensor positioned on the robot captures sensor data of an environment of the robot as the robot navigates within the environment and a processor of the robot generates a map of the environment based on at least the sensor data. The processor receives a schedule for emptying refuse stored in a container of the robot at a refuse collection location from an application of a communication device. The processor deter...