ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,285, issued on March 3.

"Bottle cleaning device with a fluid dispenser" was invented by Suresh Babu Adimulam (Visakhapatnam, India), Sanandan Sudhir (Ahmedabad, India), Tirtha Mandal (Kolkata, India), Akshay Kumar (Daulatpur, India) and Maulik Soni (Gandhinagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a compact and automated single device capable of washing, drying, and sterilizing a bottle and its accessories, along with preparing and filing milk in the cleaned bottle. The device receives the bottle and the accessories in two separate towers, and wash them properly by creating a whirl of heated water ins...