ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,138, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Environmental factor-based surface maintenance system" was invented by Eric J. Moy (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing surface maintenance based on one or more detected environmental factors for a surface monitored for maintenance. The system includes a surface monitoring assembly that monitors a surface for one or more environmental factors, such as a traffic pattern in a cleaning application, and the assembly may utilize one or more video cameras focused on a monitored surface along with video analytics software to ...