US Patent Issued to Bobsweep USA on June 23 for "Discovering and plotting the boundary of an enclosure" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,271, issued on June 23, was assigned to Bobsweep USA (Las Vegas).

"Discovering and plotting the boundary of an enclosure" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Sebastian Schweigert (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lukas Robinson (York, Canada) and Chen Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot configured to generate a map of a workspace of the robot based at least in part on data sensed by at least one sensor in different positions and orientations within the workspace. The map of the workspace is saved to a memory of the robot or the cloud. The robot is paired with a software application executed...