US Patent Issued to iRobot on March 18 for "Behavior control of mobile cleaning robot" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,061, issued on March 18, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Behavior control of mobile cleaning robot" was invented by Matthew Clements (Pasadena, Calif.), Varun Malhotra (Cambridge, Mass.), Landon Unninayar (Waltham, Mass.), Brian Cleve Benson Jr. (Chelmsford, Mass.), Andrew Graziani (Portsmouth, N.H.), Shiwei Wang (Nashua, N.H.), Thomas C. Chang (Lexington, Mass.) and Dan Wivagg (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include navigating the mobile cleaning robot within an environment. Whether a movement condition is satisfied can be determined and a mopping pad...