US Patent Issued to iRobot on Sept. 9 for "User feedback on potential obstacles and error conditions detected by autonomous mobile robots" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,804, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"User feedback on potential obstacles and error conditions detected by autonomous mobile robots" was invented by Ryan Schneider (Arlington, Mass.), Shipra Arora (Arlington, Va.), Hyun Woo Paik (Bedford, Mass.), Benjamin H. Schriesheim (Watertown, Mass.) and Lauren D. Stern (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile computing device includes a user input device and a controller. The user input device includes a display, and the controller is operably connected to the user input device and configured to execute instructions to perform operations. The o...