US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on April 21 for "System and method for detecting walls or objects within a specific proximity of a vacuum floor nozzle" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,025, issued on April 21, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"System and method for detecting walls or objects within a specific proximity of a vacuum floor nozzle" was invented by Austin Waid-Jones (Danvers, Mass.), Casey McClay (Medford, Mass.), Nikola Petrov (Boston), Zi Chan (Lancaster, Mass.), Zigui Huang (Suzhou, China), Yiming Lu (Suzhou, China), Jianshu Sun (Suzhou, China), Baolin Chen (Suzhou, China) and Baoquan Yang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner may include a suction motor; one or more edge detect sensors; a headlight assembly; one or more light sensors; and a control...