189 patents
Utility
Cleaning rollers for cleaning robots
16 Jan 24
A cleaning roller mountable to a cleaning robot is featured.
Eric Burbank, Timothy R. Ohm, Erik Amaral
Filed: 3 Sep 21
Utility
Mobile cleaning robot with adjustable suspension
2 Jan 24
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a drive wheel, and a wheel stop.
Timothy R. Ohm, Erik Edward Steltz, Russell Walter Morin, Fangzheng Guo
Filed: 29 Jul 21
Utility
Autonomous floor-cleaning robot having obstacle detection force sensors thereon and related methods
2 Jan 24
A mobile cleaning robot can include a robot body, a bumper, and a bumper impact system.
Dexter Bautista, Isaac Fowler, Andrew Graziani, Marcus R. Williams, Ping-Hong Lu, Erik Schembor
Filed: 8 Oct 20
Utility
Transferable intelligent control device
19 Dec 23
An integrated intelligent system includes a first intelligent electronic device, a second intelligent electronic device, a transferable intelligent control device (TICD) and a cross product bus.
Michael Dooley, Nikolai Romanov, Paolo Pirjanian
Filed: 7 Jan 22
Utility
Mobile cleaning robot dustpan
5 Dec 23
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body and a cleaning assembly.
Erik Amaral, Timothy R. Ohm, Andrew Deschenes
Filed: 29 Jul 21
Utility
Interfacing with a mobile telepresence robot
28 Nov 23
A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module.
Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Tim Wright, Michael Chan, Marco Pinter, Kevin Hanrahan, Daniel Sanchez, James Ballantyne, Cody Herzog, Blair Whitney, Fuji Lai, Kelton Temby, Eben Christopher Rauhut, Justin H. Kearns, Cheuk Wah Wong, Timothy Sturtevant Farlow
Filed: 14 Mar 22
Utility
Systems and methods for privacy management in an autonomous mobile robot
21 Nov 23
A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot includes receiving a privacy mode setting from a user interface, where the privacy mode setting is based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings for determining whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode.
Gregg Duthaler, Vincent Edward Colella
Filed: 2 Feb 23
Utility
Vacuum brush
14 Nov 23
A rotating cleaning element configured to be inserted in a cleaning head compartment of a robotic vacuum, the rotating cleaning element including: a drive end including a drive protrusion configured to engage a drive mechanism of the cleaning head compartment; a bearing end and a shroud configured to surround at least a portion of the bearing end to lessen an amount of hair and similar matter that reaches the bearing; and a central member extending between the bearing end and the drive end.
Matthew Blouin
Filed: 9 Jul 21
Utility
Filtering devices for evacuation stations
14 Nov 23
A bag-based filtering device for collecting debris from a cleaning robot via a debris evacuation station includes a filter bag configured to separate at least the portion of the evacuated debris from a flow of air generated by the evacuation station.
Andrew Vincent Wolff, Ellen B. Cargill, Douglas Dell'Accio, Jason Jeffrey Suchman, Flavia Pastore
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Utility
Scheduling system for autonomous robots
31 Oct 23
A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes receiving, at a handheld computing device, a first input representing a first set of cleaning schedule parameters for a first cleaning schedule for the autonomous cleaning robot, the first cleaning schedule corresponding to a first area.
Qunxi Huang, Chris Lee, Domingos Neves, Ryan Lesko, Manuel Medina
Filed: 18 Mar 22
Utility
Floor and air cleaning systems and related methods
24 Oct 23
An autonomous cleaning robot includes a drive system to move the autonomous cleaning robot about a floor surface in a space, a cleaning system to clean a floor surface in the space as the drive system moves the autonomous cleaning robot about the floor surface, and a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations.
Christopher V. Jones, Markku Suomi
Filed: 26 Mar 21
Utility
User interfaces for autonomous cleaning robots
24 Oct 23
Some autonomous cleaning robots include a drive configured to maneuver the autonomous cleaning robot about a floor surface.
Shipra Arora, Lauren D. Stern, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White
Filed: 30 Jun 21
Utility
Vertical sensing in an autonomous cleaning robot
24 Oct 23
An autonomous mobile cleaning robot can include an outer shell and a bumper.
Andrew J. Pastore, Pu Zhou, Eric Burbank
Filed: 29 Apr 22
Utility
Control of evacuation stations
3 Oct 23
An evacuation station for collecting debris from a cleaning robot includes a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations.
Ellen B. Cargill, Douglas Dell'Accio, Benjamin Pheil, Flavia Pastore, Paul Schmitt, John P. O'Brien
Filed: 26 May 22
Utility
Sensors for an autonomous cleaning robot
3 Oct 23
An autonomous cleaning robot includes a drive system to maneuver the autonomous cleaning robot across a floor surface; a cleaning assembly for cleaning the floor surface; and a sensor system disposed at a forward portion of the autonomous cleaning robot.
Brian W. Doughty, Isaac Fowler, Timothy James Haughton, Levi Fox
Filed: 9 Aug 19
Utility
Graphical user interfaces including touchpad driving interfaces for telemedicine devices
12 Sep 23
The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices.
Charles S. Jordan, Andy Young, Mei Sheng Ng, Yair Lurie, Fuji Lai, Timothy C. Wright, Cody Herzog, Blair Whitney, Bill Rizzi, James Ballantyne, Yulun Wang, Cheuk Wah Wong, Justin H. Kearns, Orjeta Taka, Ramchandra Karandikar
Filed: 22 Nov 22
Utility
Visual fiducial for behavior control zone
22 Aug 23
A mobile cleaning robot system can include a mobile cleaning robot and processing circuitry.
Eric J. Burbank, Oliver Lewis
Filed: 14 Aug 20
Utility
Debris collection device for autonomous cleaning robots
15 Aug 23
The present disclosure provides, in one aspect, a debris collection device for an autonomous cleaning robot includes a cleaning pad portion configured to contact a floor surface.
Stephen A. Hickey
Filed: 14 Apr 22
Utility
Wet floorcare robot cleaner tank latch
1 Aug 23
In one aspect, an autonomous cleaning robot includes a drive configured to propel the robot along the floor surface and a tank assembly.
Jason Jeffrey Suchman, William Farmer, Johnson Hsu
Filed: 19 Oct 20
Utility
Map based training and interface for mobile robots
18 Jul 23
A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot is described.
Stephen O'Dea, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Qunxi Huang, Kenrick E. Drew, Adam Goss, Mario E. Munich, Alexander D. Kleiner
Filed: 16 Nov 20