ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,982, issued on July 1, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Robotic cleaner" was invented by Derek Lessard (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic cleaner may include one or more driven wheels, one or more environmental sensors, at least one of the one or more environmental sensors configured to detect a first obstacle having a first vertically extending surface, one or more edge cleaning implements, and a controller communicatively coupled to the one or more driven wheels and the one or more environmental sensors. In response to detecting the first obstacle, the controller may be configured t...