ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,191, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Control of autonomous mobile robots" was invented by Philip Fong (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Ryan Schneider (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving mapping data collected by an autonomous cleaning robot as the autonomous cleaning robot moves about an environment. A portion of the mapping data is indicative of a location of an object in the environment. The method includes defining a clean zone at the location of the object such that the autonomous cleaning robot initiates a clean behavior constrained to the clean zone in respon...