US Patent Issued to iRobot on May 20 for "Methods, systems, and devices for mapping wireless communication signals for mobile robot guidance" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,856, issued on May 20, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for mapping wireless communication signals for mobile robot guidance" was invented by Paul Chambers (San Jose, Calif.), Justin H. Kearns (Los Angeles), Orjeta Taka (Los Angeles), Michael J. Dooley (Pasadena, Calif.), Nikolai Romanov (Oak Park, Calif.) and Gary Ellis Hall (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a computing device includes receiving occupancy data for an operating environment of a mobile robot based on localization data detected by at least one localization sensor of the mobile robot responsi...