Previous Patents
Existing Products
Potential Market
In the US, out of the population of 327.2 million, 285.2 million of them are adults, and adults are the major consumers of cleaning products. (https://www.census.gov/popclock/ )
Also, as of 2019 there are 128.59 million U.S. house owners and that number has been growing by about 1 million each year, and, assuming that most home owners actively attempt to keep their house clean, it could be said that this is the number of possible buyers. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ )
Also, as of 2019 there are 128.59 million U.S. house owners and that number has been growing by about 1 million each year, and, assuming that most home owners actively attempt to keep their house clean, it could be said that this is the number of possible buyers. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ )
Summary
To find our information about these patents and products, we used a combination of Google Patents and research on youtube. Through finding new solutions, we learned that there are solutions for almost every single chore we can think of, so our design will most likely be an improvement over an existing one, as opposed to making an original idea. Also, we found that a majority of solutions were robotic and automated, with few new solutions being purely mechanical without need for electricity.