ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,781, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Bobsweep USA (Las Vegas).
"Method for efficient operation of mobile robotic devices" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.) and Chen Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autonomously planning work duties of a robot within an environment of the robot, including: obtaining, with a processor of the robot, first data indicative of a presence or an absence of at least one human within the environment at a particular time; actuating, with the processor, the robot to execute work duties based on the first data, wherein: the robot executes the work duties wh...