Patents
Products
Potential Market
In the US, out of the population of 327.2 million, 285.2 million of them are adults. https://www.census.gov/popclock/ Assuming most homeowners actively try to keep their house clean there are around 128 million U.S. homeowners that would potentially be interested something that could help them clean their house. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/
Summary
Throughout part b I have discovered many current solutions to a different problems we are looking to solve. We found our patents using googles built in patent search feature and it showed many interesting ideas that have been patented and they offered more insight on a solution that has already been designed and ways that we could hope to improve it or maybe solutions that we should even stay away from as it had already been done in a good way. The products that we looked at where interesting but most of them where very expensive for the solution it offered and maybe could even be done in a better way. The products we found were either found through looking up keywords or through preexisting knowledge.