ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,675, issued on June 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for determining a motion path on a surface" was invented by Robert Schirmer (Schoemberg, Germany) and Sebastian Scherer (Tuebingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a motion path on a surface in an environment, along which motion path a mobile appliance, in particular a robot, preferably a domestic robot or a robot vacuum cleaner, is intended to move. The method includes obtaining environment information and determining a region of the surface intended to be covered by the motion of the mobile appliance; determining,...