ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,962, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"SLAM robot and a paired application thereof" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.) and Lukas Robinson (York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of composing a plurality of semi-enclosed floor surface constituents for digitally representing a fully enclosed floor surface on a screen of a smart computing device paired with a robot. The method includes composing digital representations of boundary lines of the floor surface by organizing a swarm of points to form the boundary lines, composing digital representations of the plurality of semi-enclos...