ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,350, issued on June 17, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Robotic cleaner" was invented by Michael William Finnegan (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic cleaner may include one or more driven wheels and a controller communicatively coupled to the one or more driven wheels. The controller may be configured to cause: the robotic cleaner to move along a cleaning path that includes one or more row portions and one or more turn-around portions, the robotic cleaner to stop forward movement at a first cleaning point, and the robotic cleaner to rotate in a rotation direction at the first cleaning...