ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,020, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Shenzhen Aiper Intelligent Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Apparatus for cleaning pool and controlling method" was invented by Gujie Tang (Shenzhen, China) and Qingxiang Song (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an apparatus for cleaning a pool and a method for controlling the apparatus. The method includes rotating the apparatus by a first angle in response to an arrival of the apparatus at a corner formed by edges of walls of a pool, determining a plurality of distances between the apparatus and the edges of the walls in front of the apparatus during rotating by the firs...