ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,079, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).
"Cleaning robot and control method thereof" was invented by Yiyun Tan (Suzhou, China), Mingjian Xie (Suzhou, China) and Shisong Zhang (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning robot (and a control method thereof) including a body, a mover, to drive the cleaning robot to move on a ground and perform cleaning work, a detector, configured to detect a ground feature in front of the cleaning robot, a positioner, configured to obtain position information of the cleaning robot, and a controller, electrically connected to the detecto...