ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,533, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Method for determining a distance between a cleaning robot and an obstacle" was invented by Kristina Daniel (Bad Neustadt, Germany), Kai Schmitt (Saal, Germany) and Frank Schnitzer (Bad Neustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a distance between a cleaning robot and an obstacle. The cleaning robot has a first distance measuring system for a far measuring range and a second distance measuring system for a near measuring range. The second distance measuring system includes a camera. a) if the obstacle is located in the far measuring ra...