US Patent Issued to TP-Link Systems on Feb. 24 for "Waste discharge device, docking station for use with a cleaning robot, cleaning system and method of operating the docking station" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,962, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Waste discharge device, docking station for use with a cleaning robot, cleaning system and method of operating the docking station" was invented by Wen Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a docking station of a cleaning robot, a waste discharge device for use in the docking station, a cleaning system and a method of operating the docking station. The waste discharge device includes: a valve element mounted at a position corresponding to a discharge opening of a wastewater tank of the docking station, the disc...