ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,789, issued on June 23, was assigned to Bobsweep USA (Las Vegas).

"Methods and systems for automated robotic movement" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for determining a coverage path of a robotic device, including: capturing, with a sensor, spatial data of the environment; detecting, with a processor, at least one obstacle within the environment based on the spatial data; determining, with the processor, a first working zone within the environment; determining, with the processor, a coverage path within the first working zone that accounts for at least one of t...