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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2023
Applicant:

Irobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);

Inventors:

Steven J. Baron, Nashua, NH (US);

Matthew Weyant, Medford, MA (US);

Ryan Schneider, Burlington, MA (US);

Michael Foster, Stoneham, MA (US);

Clifton Eric Smith, Stow, MA (US);

Ajay Changulani, Boxborough, MA (US);

Collin Prather, Westfield, IN (US);

Laura Tramontozzi, Charleston, MA (US);

Jonathan Sanjeev Withers, Quincy, MA (US);

Assignee:

iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2024.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01); A47L 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); A47L 9/2842 (2013.01); A47L 9/2847 (2013.01); A47L 9/2852 (2013.01); A47L 11/4011 (2013.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01); A47L 2201/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of prioritizing cleaning of rooms of an environment for a mobile cleaning robot can include generating a cleanliness score for each room of the environment using a controller. Each of the cleanliness scores can be indicative of an amount of debris expected in each respective room by the mobile cleaning robot. The method can also include generating a room cleaning priority based at least partially on the cleanliness score of each of the rooms. The method can also include scheduling operations of the mobile cleaning robot for a planned mission based on the room cleaning priority of each of the rooms of the environment.


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