US Patent Issued to iRobot on June 30 for "Systems and methods to control an autonomous mobile robot" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,977, issued on June 30, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods to control an autonomous mobile robot" was invented by Jacob C. Cheuvront (Waltham, Mass.), Christopher V. Jones (Woburn, Mass.) and Michael J. Dooley (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling one or more operations of an autonomous mobile robot maneuverable within a home includes establishing wireless communication between an autonomous mobile robot and a remote computing system and, in response to receiving a wireless command signal from the remote computing system, initiating one or more operations of the au...