US Patent Issued to MATIC ROBOTS on Oct. 7 for "Mapping an environment around an autonomous vacuum" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,463, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MATIC ROBOTS INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mapping an environment around an autonomous vacuum" was invented by Navneet Dalal (Atherton, Calif.), Seungho Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Gavin Li (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Mehul Nariyawala (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous cleaning robot (e.g., an autonomous vacuum) may use a sensor system to map an environment that may be used to determine where to clean. The autonomous vacuum receives visual data about the environment and determines a ground plane of the environment based on the visual data. The autonomous vacuum detect...