ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,747, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).
"Cleaning robot" was invented by Charles Anthony Neild Collis (Bath, Great Britain) and James Trevor Clarkson (Tewkesbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measures for use operating a robot having one or more sensors. At the robot, a representation of an environment of the robot is generated by operating the one or more sensors to sense a set of parameters representative of the environment of the robot. The representation includes at least one surface in the environment other than a surface on which the robot is located. Control dat...