ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,266, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Robot cleaner and control method thereof" was invented by Changhyeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kihong Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Kahyung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided according to one embodiment of the present invention is a method for controlling a robot cleaner, comprising: a map data collection step of collecting first information collected by photographing a cleaning target area by means of a depth camera and second information collected by photographing the cleaning target area by means of an IR sensor; a dept...