US Patent Issued to Knoll Robotics on July 21 for "Waste disposal robot, system, and method" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,559, issued on July 21, was assigned to Knoll Robotics Inc. (Annapolis, Md.).

"Waste disposal robot, system, and method" was invented by Wayne K. Knoll Jr. (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot for waste disposal, the robot being configured to be secured to a garbage container. The robot includes a propulsion system, a control unit, a navigation system, and at least one power source. The control unit is configured to: store a scheduler event in the memory, the scheduler event including information pertaining to a day of the week and a time of the day; store a navigation instruction in the memory, the navigation instr...