ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,280, issued on April 14, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).
"Cleaning roller for cleaning robots" was invented by William Goddard (Somerville, Mass.) and Matthew Blouin (Townsend, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning roller mountable to a cleaning robot includes an elongate shaft extending from a first end portion to a second end portion along an axis of rotation. The first and second end portions are mountable to the cleaning robot for rotating about the axis of rotation. The cleaning roller further includes a core affixed around the shaft and having outer end portions positioned along the elongate shaft and ...