US Patent Issued to AI on March 31 for "Robotic floor-cleaning system manager" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,361, issued on March 31, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Robotic floor-cleaning system manager" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.) and Soroush Mehrnia (Helsingborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects provide a method for instructing operation of a robotic floor-cleaning device based on the position of the robotic floor-cleaning device within a two-dimensional map of the workspace. A two-dimensional map of a workspace is generated using inputs from sensors positioned on a robotic floor-cleaning device to represent the multi-dimensional workspace of the robotic floor-cleaning device. The two-dim...