ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,453, issued on March 11, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Mapping interface for mobile robots" was invented by Vanessa Wiegel (Needham, Mass.), Stephen O'Dea (Bedford, Mass.), Kathleen Ann Mahoney (Spencerport, N.Y.), Qunxi Huang (Somerville, Mass.), Michael Foster (Stoneham, Mass.), Brian Ratta (Burlington, Mass.), Garrett Strobel (Boston) and Scott Marchant (Saratoga Springs, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes presenting, on a display of a handheld computing device, a graphical representation of a map including a plurality of selectable rooms, presenting, ...