US Patent Issued to iRobot on Sept. 8 for "Control of evacuation stations" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,729, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Control of evacuation stations" was invented by Ellen B. Cargill (Norfolk, Mass.), Douglas Dell'Accio (Boston), Benjamin Pheil (Ontario, N.Y.), Flavia Pastore (Wakefield, Mass.), Paul Schmitt (Merrimack, N.H.) and John P. O'Brien (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evacuation station for collecting debris from a cleaning robot includes a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations. The one or more operations includes initiating an evacuation operation such that an air mover draws air containing debris from the clea...