ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,297, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Mobile robot and method of controlling thereof" was invented by Christopher John Ord (Bath, Great Britain), James Robert Carswell (Bristol, Great Britain) and Giles Ashbee (Swindon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a mobile robot capable of carrying out an operation within an environment, the method including: storing an environment map in a memory, the environment map including data to enable the robot to navigate the environment; further storing in the memory data corresponding to one or more hazard areas en...