ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,349, issued on May 5, was assigned to DREAME INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) Co. LTD. (Suzhou City, China).

"Method and apparatus for identifying ground feature by automatic cleaning device" was invented by Yinbo Xu (Suzhou City, China), Jun Wu (Suzhou City, China) and Jiajia Sun (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for identifying a ground feature by an automatic cleaning device. The method includes collecting a rolling-brush current and a side-brush current; performing weighted calculation according to the rolling-brush current and the side-brush current, so as to obtain a ground identification coe...