ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,832, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Obstacle avoidance method for self-propelled device, medium, and self-propelled device" was invented by Yansheng Niu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an obstacle avoidance method for a self-propelled device, a medium, and a self-propelled device. The method includes acquiring a suspension height of an obstacle on a current travel route during traveling; determining whether the suspension height of the obstacle is within a preset limited height range, wherein the preset limited height range enables a part of the self...