ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,909, issued on June 23.
"Multipurpose cleaning tool" was invented by William Cody Fairbanks (Sandy, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipurpose cleaning tool device is disclosed and described having a tool housing that includes an elongate handle sized to be held by a user when in use, a cleaning head coupled to one end of the elongate handle, a first cleaning material coupled to and extending away from a bottom surface of the cleaning head such that the first cleaning material defines a first surface cleaning interface, and a channel extending through the tool housing from a top surface of the tool housing to a bottom surface...