ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,909, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Station device on which cleaner is docked and operating method of station device" was invented by Seongu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soohoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juhan Seon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ahyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeongju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeshik Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoonkyung Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a station device configured to detect a first zero crossing point (ZCP) and a second ZCP with respect to an alternating current (AC) input v...