US Patent Issued to iRobot on Nov. 4 for "Cleaning prioritization for mobile cleaning robot" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,528, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Cleaning prioritization for mobile cleaning robot" was invented by Steven J. Baron (Nashua, N.H.), Matthew Weyant (Medford, Mass.), Ryan Schneider (Burlington, Mass.), Michael Foster (Stoneham, Mass.), Clifton Eric Smith (Stow, Mass.), Ajay Changulani (Boxborough, Mass.), Collin Prather (Westfield, Ind.), Laura Tramontozzi (Charleston, Mass.) and Jonathan Sanjeev Withers (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of prioritizing cleaning of rooms of an environment for a mobile cleaning robot can include generating a cleanliness score for each room of th...