ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,972, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MATIC ROBOTS INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Autonomous vacuum mopping system" was invented by Anshuman Kumar (San Francisco), Karthik Chandrashekaraiah (San Francisco), Nathan Elio Madonia (Mountain View, Calif.), William George Plummer (London), Tristan Pierre Gervais (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vishal Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vacuum includes mopping and sweeping functionalities. A magnetic locking system secures a cleaning head of the autonomous vacuum into a mopping position when in a mopping state, allowing the vacuum to move a mop roller back and for...