ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,766, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Method for edge cleaning" was invented by Yao Huang (Singapore), Peng Ma (Singapore) and Zhiheng Xu (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a set of cleanable perimeter segments of an area to be cleaned by a robotic cleaner. Each cleanable perimeter segment defines a path to be followed by the robotic cleaner around an edge of the area to be cleaned. The method includes receiving an occupancy grid map of the area to be cleaned; generating a contiguous accessible area grid map of the area to be cleaned based on the occ...