US Patent Issued to BISSELL on Sept. 23 for "Docking station for an autonomous floor cleaner" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,479, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BISSELL Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Docking station for an autonomous floor cleaner" was invented by Todd R. VanTongeren (Ada, Mich.) and Justin Nguyen (Wyoming, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for an autonomous floor cleaner performs maintenance on the autonomous floor cleaner, including removing a mopping implement from the autonomous floor cleaner and/or installing a mopping implement on the autonomous floor cleaner. The docking station can further perform other maintenance services on the autonomous floor cleaner. An autonomous floor cleaning system including an au...