ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,757, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot cleaner and control method therefor" was invented by Hyunjin Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a robot cleaner control method comprising: a first step of storing information related to cleaning during which a manual cleaner cleans while being moved by a user; a second step in which the information, stored in the first step, is transmitted to a robot cleaner; and a third step in which the robot cleaner cleans according to the information."

The patent was filed on Sept. 5, 2019, under Applic...