ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,748, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Cordless vacuum cleaner and method of controlling operation of cordless vacuum cleaner" was invented by Seongu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mijeong Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kunwoo Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeongju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeshik Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an operation of a cordless vacuum cleaner includes storing information about predefined movement patterns corresponding to a plurality of control commands in a...