ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,752, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Guetersloh, Germany).

"Projected display for cleaning station of vacuum robot" was invented by Marion Karoline Strauss (Hamminkeln, Germany), Carina Uphoff (Bielefeld, Germany), Dominik Holz (Bielefeld, Germany), Nicolas Stroop (Bielefeld, Germany) and Thomas Abel (Ludenscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning station for vacuum robots for cleaning floor surfaces, the cleaning station having a housing, the housing having an electrical interface, the interface being designed to contact a vacuum robot approaching the cleaning station for charging, the housing havin...