US Patent Issued to Nilfisk on Nov. 25 for "Method of controlling a robotic floor cleaning machine" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,240, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nilfisk A/S (Broendby, Denmark).

"Method of controlling a robotic floor cleaning machine" was invented by Stephen Klopp (Champlin, Minn.), Stuart McDonald (Minnetonka, Minn.), Kipp Knutson (Shorewood, Minn.), David Wood (Delano, Minn.), Andrew Graham (Maple Grove, Minn.), Christian Kraft (Roskilde, Denmark) and Donald Joseph Legatt (St. Michael, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a robotic floor cleaning machine includes driving, by an operator, the robotic floor cleaning machine along a transport path and a cleaning path. The transport path defines a path for transpor...