ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,757, issued on March 4, was assigned to LOOP ROBOTS (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

"System and method for mobile service robot site disinfection" was invented by Per Slycke (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Aswin Chandarr (Rijswijk, Netherlands) and Dimitrios Chronopoulos (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for robot-executed site disinfection are provided, employing an autonomous robot equipped with a germicidal light source. In an area that is already mapped with a pre-defined trajectory, the robot may generate a map of delivered dosage and regions of UVC shadows when the robot moves in the environment. Alter...