ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,743, issued on April 22, was assigned to BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Munich).
"Method for the improved cleaning of edges of a wall" was invented by Julius Geis (Burkardroth, Germany), Michael Hohmann (Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale, Germany), Juri Gebel (Hohenroth, Germany) and Dominik Schreiner (Kalbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a cleaning robot for improved cleaning of edges of a wall having a projecting baseboard, includes using the robot to strike the baseboard in a first cleaning pass, causing an impact sensor to generate a first signal and a distance sensor to detect a first distance from the wall. The robot c...