ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,994, issued on July 28, was assigned to Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Photographing exposure method and apparatus for self-walking device" was invented by Zhen Wu (Beijing), Jiabo Chen (Beijing) and Yang Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a photographic exposure method for a self-moving device. The method includes: detecting, based on a preset rule, brightness information of a target region in an image; adjusting a exposure parameter in response to the detected brightness information not meeting a preset condition; and performing, based on the adjusted exposure par...