ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,816, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Mobile robot determining future exposure time of optical sensor" was invented by Guo-Zhen Wang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a mobile robot that controls an exposure time of an optical sensor during a time interval during which images of a gap between tiles are captured. At an end of the time interval that an image of a gap between tiles is captured, the exposure time of the optical sensor is adjust to the exposure time being used right before the time interval to avoid high brightness of the captured im...