ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,360, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Control of autonomous mobile robots" was invented by Shipra Arora (Arlington, Va.), Michael Foster (Stoneham, Mass.), Frank Judge (Andover, Mass.), Brandon Rohrer (Boston), Christopher Shumaker (Cambridge, Mass.), Matthew Weyant (Medford, Mass.), Alex Wong (Somerville, Mass.) and Lauren D. Stern (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving sensor data collected by an autonomous mobile robot as the autonomous mobile robot moves about an environment, the sensor data being indicative of sensor events and locations associated with the se...