ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,207, issued on April 8, was assigned to URSrobot AI Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for controlling a plurality of robots for environment maintenance" was invented by Chien-Tung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Hou Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao-Cheng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Wei Chiang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Jin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a plurality of autonomous robots for performing environment maintenance operations includes: generating a setup command that indicates a selected location, a plurality of selected robots, an available time slot, and a distribution mode signal that indicates...