US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 20 for "Robot cleaner" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,735, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot cleaner" was invented by Changhwa Sun (Seoul, South Korea), Jungmin Ko (Seoul, South Korea) and Jihyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot cleaner including a main body for forming an exterior of the robot cleaner, a driver for moving the main body, a cleaning module housing coupled to the main body, and a mopping unit accommodated in a space defined in the cleaning module housing to mop a traveling face, wherein the mopping unit includes a body disposed in the cleaning module housing, a plurality of mopping...