US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Nov. 11 for "Method for operating a mobile self-propelled appliance and mobile self-propelled appliance operated according to the method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,186, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Method for operating a mobile self-propelled appliance and mobile self-propelled appliance operated according to the method" was invented by Frank Schnitzer (Bad Neustadt, Germany), Kristina Daniel (Bad Neustadt, Germany) and Stefan Hassfurter (Maroldsweisach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a mobile self-propelled appliance, in particular a floor cleaning appliance such as a robot vacuum cleaner and/or robot sweeper and/or robot mopping appliance, includes detecting at least one obstacle in a floor processing area, cleaning a surroun...