US Patent Issued to ZODIAC POOL CARE EUROPE on June 10 for "Concepts and methods for communicating with equipment such as automatic swimming pool cleaners via accelerometers or other sensors, motors, or both" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,011, issued on June 10, was assigned to ZODIAC POOL CARE EUROPE (Belberaud, France).

"Concepts and methods for communicating with equipment such as automatic swimming pool cleaners via accelerometers or other sensors, motors, or both" was invented by Florent Dallet (Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France), Simon Duffaut (Castelginest, France) and Louis Favie (Colomiers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and methods for wirelessly communicating with equipment such as, but not necessarily limited to, automatic swimming pool cleaners (APCs) are detailed. An accelerometer or other sensor on-board an APC may recognize such communica...