US Patent Issued to iRobot on Dec. 16 for "Mobile robot providing environmental mapping for household environmental control" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,727, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Mobile robot providing environmental mapping for household environmental control" was invented by Colin Angle (Beverly, Mass.), David Snelling (Needham, Mass.), Melissa O'Dea (Chelmsford, Mass.), Timothy S. Farlow (Chelmsford, Mass.), Samuel Duffley (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeffrey W. Mammen (Westford, Mass.) and Michael J. Halloran (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot includes a processor connected to a memory and a wireless network circuit, for executing routines stored in the memory and commands generated by the routines and received via th...