查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-According to news reporting originatin g from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors Ak hurst, Patryk D. (Grand Rapids, MI, US), Brouwers, Andrew James (Grand Rapids, M I, US), Swan, Jeffery (Ovid, MI, US), Thomas, Jared (West Olive, MI, US), VanKam pen, David (Grand Rapids, MI, US), filed on January 26, 2021, was published onli ne on March 12, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 11925306, is BISSELL Inc. (Grand Rap ids, Michigan, United States). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Autonomous or robotic floor cleaners can move without the ass istance of a user or operator to clean a floor surface. For example, the floor c leaner can be configured to vacuum or sweep dirt (including dust, hair, and othe r debris) into a collection bin carried on the floor cleaner. Some floor cleaner s are further configured to apply and extract liquid for wet cleaning of bare fl oors, carpets, rugs, and other floor surfaces. The floor cleaner can move random ly about a surface while cleaning the floor surface or use a mapping/navigation system for guided navigation about the surface.