US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Method of controlling cleaning robot to avoid liquid object, and cleaning robot therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,840, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of controlling cleaning robot to avoid liquid object, and cleaning robot therefor" was invented by Juyong Kim (Yokohama, Japan), Katsunori Araki (Yokohama, Japan), Motonari Sakurai (Yokohama, Japan), Ritsuya Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Takaaki Katsuura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning robot including a cleaning module; a traveling module to move the cleaning robot on a surface to be cleaned; a light emission unit; an infrared light sensor; a visible light sensor; and at least one processor configured to exe...