ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,259, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Robot for detecting floor while moving and control method thereof" was invented by Jeayun So (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyongsu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeonkyu Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning robot for detecting a floor while moving around and a method of controlling the cleaning robot are provided. The method includes identifying, by the cleaning robot, a fibrous floor area through a floor detection sensor while the cleaning robot moves around on a cleaning ar...