ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,095, issued on May 20, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Mobile robot cleaning head suspension" was invented by Timothy R. Ohm (Grover Beach, Calif.), David O. Swett (Bedford, Mass.) and Fangzheng Guo (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile cleaning robot can be movable within an environment. The mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a cleaning head, a biasing element, and a linkage. The cleaning head can be operable to extract debris from a floor surface and can be configured to move vertically relative to the body between an extended position and a retracted position. The biasing element can be c...