ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,285, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Shenzhen Aiper Intelligent Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Automatic pool cleaning device and its controlling method" was invented by Jinhui Liao (Shenzhen, China), Xianhe Wen (Shenzhen, China), Xiantao Qian (Shenzhen, China), Shuai Cao (Shenzhen, China) and Jiaxiang Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic pool cleaning device and a method for controlling the automatic pool cleaning device. The method includes obtaining at least one real-time image of a scene in front of the automatic pool cleaning device during a movement of the automatic pool cleaning device on a botto...