ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,545, issued on May 27, was assigned to Clutterbot Inc. (Claymont, Del.).
"General purpose tidying robot" was invented by Justin David Hamilton (Wellington, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and tidying robot system that performs it. A robot of a tidying robot system receives a starting location, a target cleaning area, and obstructions in its path navigating the target cleaning area. It determines a tidying strategy including vacuuming and obstruction handling. It executes the tidying strategy, vacuuming the target cleaning area and moving and/or avoiding obstructions, which are tidyable and/or movable ...