ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,405, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Vacuum cleaner and method for controlling thereof" was invented by Jeayun So (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangsik Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner is provided. The vacuum cleaner includes a main body and a front detection sensor disposed to face forward in a suction head coupled to one end of a connection pipe extending from the main body, configured to transmit a forward signal, and receive a signal reflected from an obstacle located in a forward signal area by the...