ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,780, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Autonomous surface treatment apparatus" was invented by Stuart Lloyd Genn (Swindon, Great Britain), Robert Michael Cox (Warwick, Great Britain) and Matthew Jonathan Stubbs (Newport, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous surface cleaning apparatus includes a body, a drive system carried by the body, and a cleaning assembly disposed at a front of the body. The cleaning assembly includes a housing defining a suction chamber and a suction channel extending from the suction chamber to a suction channel opening provided in a f...