US 11,992,566 B2
Self sanitizing storage of a delivery robot
David Gillespie, Los Angeles, CA (US); Colin Janssen, Vancouver (CA); Sean Plaice, San Francisco, CA (US); Aaron Leiba, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Ali Haghighat Kashani, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Serve Robotics Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed by Serve Robotics Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/249,985.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/992,878, filed on Mar. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0290796 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/20 (2006.01); A61L 2/24 (2006.01); A61L 2/26 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [A61L 2/202 (2013.01); A61L 2/24 (2013.01); A61L 2/26 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/121 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/15 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delivery robot comprising:
a cargo bin;
a door coupled to the cargo bin, wherein the door has an open state to allow access to an interior of the cargo bin, and a closed state to seal the interior of the cargo bin from an exterior environment; and
a disinfecting light source operable to generate a disinfecting radiation to disinfect the interior of the cargo bin, wherein the disinfecting light source is allowed to be activated when the door is in the closed state, and is prevented from being activated when the door is in the open state,
wherein the delivery robot is programmed to navigate a delivery route to a destination, and
wherein a controller of the delivery robot is configured to activate the disinfecting light source for a first duration of time after departing the destination.