US Patent Issued to DIVERSEY on July 1 for "Robotic cleaning device with dynamic area coverage" (Virginia, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,123, issued on July 1, was assigned to DIVERSEY INC. (Fort Mill, S.C.).

"Robotic cleaning device with dynamic area coverage" was invented by David M. Knuth Jr. (North Chesterfield, Va.), Aurle Y. Gagne (Mechanicsville, Va.), Erick Frack (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Daniel M. Daly (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of moving a robotic cleaning device through an area includes loading instructions for a plurality of geometric elements. Each geometric element includes a starting point, paths of travel, and waypoints. An ending waypoint of a first geometric element is connected to the starting point for a subsequent geom...