ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,722, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Robotic cleaner" was invented by Robert T. Hall (Franklin, Tenn.), Alex Irkliy (Portland, Tenn.) and Heena Mordani (Brookline, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic cleaning system may include a robotic cleaner configured to generate a map of an environment and a mobile device configured to communicatively couple to the robotic cleaner, the robotic cleaner configured to communicate the map to the mobile device. The mobile device may include a camera configured to generate an image of the environment, the image comprising a plurality of pixels, ...