ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,000, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Multi-camera frame synchronization control method and self-propelled device" was invented by Jie Li (Beijing) and Zhanzhi Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing frame synchronization control on a first camera and a second camera of a self-propelled device includes: sending, in response to capturing a first image frame, a synchronization instruction to a controller of the self-propelled device; in response to receiving the synchronization instruction, determining a sending timepoint of a frame synchronizat...