ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,884, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and system for controlling cleaning robot" was invented by Heesuk Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kiyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a cleaning robot. More particularly, the operating method including: receiving, from a server device, a lock setting request to set the cleaning robot to a lock state; setting the cleaning robot to the lock state by inactivating an operation button of the cleaning robot or inactivating a voice recognition function of the cleaning robot, based on th...