ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,204, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Mapping stasis for mobile cleaning robot" was invented by Dimitri A. Lisin (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Yao Chen (Melrose, Mass.) and Adel Fakih (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile cleaning robot configured to clean an environment. The mobile cleaning robot can include a body and a drivetrain operable to move the body within the environment. The robot can include a sensor connected to the body and configured to generate a sensor signal based on interactions between the mobile cleaning robot and the environment. The robot can include an image capture...