ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,543, issued on May 27, was assigned to BISSELL Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
"Robotic cleaner with sweeper and rotating dusting pads" was invented by Steve M. Johnson (Hudsonville, Mich.), Todd Vantongeren (Ada, Mich.), Jake Andrew Mohan (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Adam Brown (Holland, Mich.) and Eric Daniel Buehler (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous floor cleaner can include a brush chamber, a brushroll rotatably mounted in the brush chamber, a controller adapted to control the operation of the autonomous floor cleaner, and a fluid delivery system with a supply tank and at least one fluid distributor configur...