Patents by Inventor Cory White

Cory White has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11793384
    Abstract: Some autonomous cleaning robots include a drive configured to maneuver the autonomous cleaning robot about a floor surface. The robots include a cleaning system to clean the floor surface as the autonomous cleaning robot is maneuvered about the floor surface. The robots include a robot button positioned on the autonomous cleaning robot. The robots include a controller in electrical communication with the drive and the robot button. The controller is configured to perform operations including selecting a behavior of the autonomous cleaning robot from a plurality of behaviors of the autonomous cleaning robot responsive to a duration of actuation of the robot button and causing the autonomous mobile robot to initiate the behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Shipra Arora, Lauren D. Stern, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White
  • Publication number: 20230248199
    Abstract: An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data representing an editable mission timeline including data representing a sequence of rooms to be cleaned, navigate the cleaning robot to clean the rooms following the sequence, track operational events occurring in each of the rooms, and transmit data about time spent navigating each room included in the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
  • Patent number: 11679713
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a body, a drive supporting the body above a floor surface, a light-propagating plate positioned on the body and having a periphery defining a continuous loop, light sources each being positioned to direct light through a portion of the plate to a portion of the continuous loop, and a controller to selectively operate the light sources to provide a visual indicator of a status or service condition of the autonomous mobile robot. The drive is configured to maneuver the mobile robot about the floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Cory White, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Oliver Lewis, Stephen A. Hickey, Stuart R. Jang, Michael J. Dooley
  • Patent number: 11638510
    Abstract: An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data representing an editable mission timeline including data representing a sequence of rooms to be cleaned, navigate the cleaning robot to clean the rooms following the sequence, track operational events occurring in each of the rooms, and transmit data about time spent navigating each room included in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
  • Publication number: 20230000301
    Abstract: Some autonomous cleaning robots include a drive configured to maneuver the autonomous cleaning robot about a floor surface. The robots include a cleaning system to clean the floor surface as the autonomous cleaning robot is maneuvered about the floor surface. The robots include a robot button positioned on the autonomous cleaning robot. The robots include a controller in electrical communication with the drive and the robot button. The controller is configured to perform operations including selecting a behavior of the autonomous cleaning robot from a plurality of behaviors of the autonomous cleaning robot responsive to a duration of actuation of the robot button and causing the autonomous mobile robot to initiate the behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shipra Arora, Lauren D. Stern, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White
  • Publication number: 20220041098
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a body, a drive supporting the body above a floor surface, a light-propagating plate positioned on the body and having a periphery defining a continuous loop, light sources each being positioned to direct light through a portion of the plate to a portion of the continuous loop, and a controller to selectively operate the light sources to provide a visual indicator of a status or service condition of the autonomous mobile robot. The drive is configured to maneuver the mobile robot about the floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Cory White, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Oliver Lewis, Stephen A. Hickey, Stuart R. Jang, Michael J. Dooley
  • Publication number: 20220015596
    Abstract: A machine-readable medium can include instructions for presenting a user interface, which when executed by a processor, can cause the processor to display an image on the user interface representing a mobile cleaning robot that is in communication with the processor. The processor can also display lines representing an environment of the mobile cleaning robot, where the image and the lines can together be indicative of a status of the mobile cleaning robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Cory White, Sam Hong, Craig Michael Butterworth, Michael Foster
  • Patent number: 11104268
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a body, a drive supporting the body above a floor surface, a light-propagating plate positioned on the body and having a periphery defining a continuous loop, light sources each being positioned to direct light through a portion of the plate to a portion of the continuous loop, and a controller to selectively operate the light sources to provide a visual indicator of a status or service condition of the autonomous mobile robot. The drive is configured to maneuver the mobile robot about the floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Cory White, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Oliver Lewis, Stephen A. Hickey, Stuart R. Jang, Michael J. Dooley
  • Publication number: 20210076892
    Abstract: An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data representing an editable mission timeline including data representing a sequence of rooms to be cleaned, navigate the cleaning robot to clean the rooms following the sequence, track operational events occurring in each of the rooms, and transmit data about time spent navigating each room included in the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
  • Publication number: 20190255991
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a body, a drive supporting the body above a floor surface, a light-propagating plate positioned on the body and having a periphery defining a continuous loop, light sources each being positioned to direct light through a portion of the plate to a portion of the continuous loop, and a controller to selectively operate the light sources to provide a visual indicator of a status or service condition of the autonomous mobile robot. The drive is configured to maneuver the mobile robot about the floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Cory White, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Oliver Lewis, Stephen A. Hickey, Stuart R. Jang, Michael J. Dooley
  • Patent number: 10272828
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a body, a drive supporting the body above a floor surface, a light-propagating plate positioned on the body and having a periphery defining a continuous loop, light sources each being positioned to direct light through a portion of the plate to a portion of the continuous loop, and a controller to selectively operate the light sources to provide a visual indicator of a status or service condition of the autonomous mobile robot. The drive is configured to maneuver the mobile robot about the floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Cory White, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Oliver Lewis, Stephen A. Hickey, Stuart R. Jang, Michael J Dooley
  • Publication number: 20180344116
    Abstract: An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data representing an editable mission timeline including data representing a sequence of rooms to be cleaned, navigate the cleaning robot to clean the rooms following the sequence, track operational events occurring in each of the rooms, and transmit data about time spent navigating each room included in the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
  • Publication number: 20180050634
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a body, a drive supporting the body above a floor surface, a light-propagating plate positioned on the body and having a periphery defining a continuous loop, light sources each being positioned to direct light through a portion of the plate to a portion of the continuous loop, and a controller to selectively operate the light sources to provide a visual indicator of a status or service condition of the autonomous mobile robot. The drive is configured to maneuver the mobile robot about the floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Cory White, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Oliver Lewis, Stephen A. Hickey, Stuart R. Jang, Michael J Dooley
  • Patent number: D775990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Cory White, Stuart Jang, Austin Harvey
  • Patent number: D775991
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Cory White, Stuart Jang, Austin Harvey