ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,261, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot cleaner and method of controlling robot cleaner" was invented by Yonggil Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Inbo Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sihwan Moon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of controlling a robot cleaner including a pair of rotary plates having lower sides to which mops facing a floor surface are coupled, the robot cleaner being configured to move by rotating the pair of rotary plates, the method including: a first forward movement step of moving the robot cleaner forward from a ...