ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,871, issued on June 17, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany).
"Automatically moving disinfection robot for disinfecting surfaces" was invented by Henning Hayn (Hilden, Germany), Andrej Mosebach (Unna, Germany) and Georg Hackert (Bochum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatically moving disinfection robot for disinfecting surfaces has a device housing, a drive means for the movement of the disinfection robot within a surrounding area comprising at least one room, a navigation means for the navigation and self-localization of the disinfection, a disinfection means, and a control means for co...