US Patent Issued to iRobot on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for monitoring autonomous robotic lawnmowers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,445, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring autonomous robotic lawnmowers" was invented by Qunxi Huang (Somerville, Mass.), Wesley Johnson (Watertown, Mass.), Mark Edward Piana (Cambridge, Mass.), Erik Steltz (Melrose, Mass.), Benjamin Axelrod (Burlington, Mass.) and Ira Renfrew (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computer, can provide a user with information pertaining to operations of an autonomous robotic lawnmower to assist the user with monitoring the operations of the robotic lawnmower and with setting up ...