ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,364, issued on June 16, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Floor cleaning system" was invented by Kristina Daniel (Bad Neustadt, Germany), Kai Schmitt (Saal, Germany) and Frank Schnitzer (Bad Neustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor cleaning system includes a mobile, self-driving apparatus and a portable additional apparatus for a user. The self-driving apparatus, in particular, is a cleaning apparatus for autonomous treatment of floor areas, such as a vacuuming robot and/or sweeping robot and/or wiping robot. The user apparatus has an operating unit, a communication unit, and a position detection unit. Us...