US Patent Issued to BISSELL on Oct. 7 for "Docking station for an autonomous floor cleaner" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,465, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BISSELL Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Docking station for an autonomous floor cleaner" was invented by Todd R. VanTongeren (Ada, Mich.), Andrew J. Brouwers (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Justin Nguyen (Wyoming, Mich.) and Daniel A Schurr (Wyoming, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous floor cleaning system includes an autonomous floor cleaner with a docking station. The docking station is configured to performing maintenance for the autonomous floor cleaner, such as refilling the autonomous floor cleaner, emptying the autonomous floor cleaner, washing mopping pads, and/or recharging the auton...