ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,795, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Aiper Global Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Sweeping method of swimming pool cleaning robot and cleaning robot" was invented by Kai Zheng (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a sweeping method of a swimming pool cleaning robot and a cleaning robot, the method including: acquiring map information about an area to be cleaned; planning a first sweeping path based on the map information, the first sweeping path meeting pre-set cleaning parameter requirements; controlling the cleaning robot to travel and perform a cleaning operation based on the first sweeping pa...