US Patent Issued to iRobot on March 18 for "Image capture devices for autonomous mobile robots and related systems and methods" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,852, issued on March 18, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Image capture devices for autonomous mobile robots and related systems and methods" was invented by Husain al-Mohssen (Cambridge, Mass.), Zupei Li (Nashua, N.H.), Elena Jakubiak (Arlington, Mass.), Laura V. Herlant (Arlington, Mass.), Michael J. Halloran (Bedford, Mass.) and Danielle O'Connor Dean (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous cleaning robot includes a drive system to support the autonomous cleaning robot above a floor surface, an image capture device positioned on the autonomous cleaning robot to capture imagery of a portion of ...