US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Sept. 30 for "Robot cleaner and method for controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,755, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot cleaner and method for controlling the same" was invented by Juno Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Janghun Cheong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for controlling a robot cleaner including acquiring, by a camera, an image, irradiating, by a light source, light toward a location the same as a location where the acquired image is captured, receiving, by a sensor, the light irradiated from the light source and reflected on an object, processing an image received from the sensor to contain a distance value of an...