US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 7 for "Cleaning robot and controlling method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,749, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cleaning robot and controlling method thereof" was invented by Jongsoo Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongchan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeehoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byoungwoo Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning robot including a main body; a motion driver configured to move the main body; a pad motor configured to rotate a pad below a bottom surface of the main body; a light source configured to irradiate light to the pad; and at least one processor configured...