US Patent Issued to BISSELL on Aug. 11 for "Surface cleaning apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,260, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BISSELL Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Surface cleaning apparatus" was invented by Mackenzie Leigh Knapp (Saranac, Mich.), Brian Robert Dexter (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Tyler Newkirk (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Churu Yun (Plainwell, Mich.), Connor Canavan (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Nicholas Harvey Jobbitt (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface cleaning apparatus includes a base assembly with a suction nozzle and at least one wheel. A hand-held portion has a hand grip, a recovery container, and a suction source in fluid communication with the suction nozzle and the recovery container and c...