ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,080, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Adjustable parameters for autonomous cleaning robots" was invented by Ping-Hong Lu (Auburndale, Mass.), Marcus Williams (Watertown, Mass.), Adam Goss (Lincoln, Mass.) and Melissa O'Dea (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes presenting, on a display of a mobile device, a representation of each of multiple cleaning levels, each cleaning level corresponding to a respective rank overlap parameter for a wet cleaning mission of the autonomous cleaning robot. The method includes receiving, at the mobile...