ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,753, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Washable bin for a robot vacuum cleaner" was invented by David Orrin Swett (Waltham, Mass.), Lien Hoffman (Somerville, Mass.) and Yanhan Li (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning bin mountable to an autonomous cleaning robot operable to receive debris from a floor surface includes an inlet positioned between lateral sides of the cleaning bin and an outlet configured to connect to a vacuum assembly, the vacuum assembly operable to direct an airflow from the inlet of the cleaning bin to the outlet of the cleaning bin. The cleaning bin also incl...