ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,644, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BINDER GMBH (Ulm, Germany).
"Cleaning device" was invented by Robert Binder (Laichingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning device for installation in a pipeline having a sensor unit which has at least one sensor tip; an elongated housing which has a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end and at least partially receives the sensor unit so that the sensor tip, in the measurement mode, protrudes at the second longitudinal end; and a wiping unit which is held in the housing so that it is movable in the longitudinal direction and has a wiping element, which is assigned to...