ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,346, issued on May 5, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Robotic cleaner" was invented by Jun Feng Ding (Shenzhen, China), Evan P. Jasper (Whitman, Mass.), Yi hui Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Hamish Thompson (London), Max Davidowitz (Needham, Mass.), Simon Hughes (London), Jianjun Ge (Shenzhen, China) and Jian Xiang (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic cleaner may include one or more driven wheels, at least one environmental sensor, and a mop module. The mop module may include a tank having a tank inlet and a tank outlet, a pad coupled at a bottom side of the tank, the pad configured to contac...