US Patent Issued to iRobot on July 7 for "Evacuation station" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,747, issued on July 7, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Evacuation station" was invented by Russell Walter Morin (Burlington, Mass.), Faruk Halil Bursal (Lexington, Mass.) and Harold Boeschenstein (Marblehead, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evacuation station includes a base and a canister removably attached to the base. The base includes a ramp having an inclined surface for receiving a robotic cleaner having a debris bin. The ramp defines an evacuation intake opening arranged to pneumatically interface with the debris bin. The base also includes a first conduit portion pneumatically connected to the evacuatio...