ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,732, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Robot cleaner and control method thereof" was invented by Youngsub Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwan Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot cleaner and a control method thereof are disclosed. A robot cleaner, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a tilt sensor module; a distance sensor module; and a light amount sensor module. Each piece of sensed information is transmitted to a lifting information calculation module. The lifting information calculation module calculates information on whether the robot...