ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,006, issued on July 14, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Method for autonomous processing of floor surfaces" was invented by Frank Schnitzer (Bad Neustadt, Germany), Dominik Schreiner (Kalbach, Germany) and Julius Geis (Burkardroth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autonomous processing of floor surfaces by a mobile, self-driving device, in particular a floor cleaning device such as a vacuum and/or sweeping and/or mopping robot. The method includes: the mobile, self-driving device carrying out an exploration travel in a proposed floor processing region, detecting obstacles and/or objects located on th...