ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,795, issued on March 31, was assigned to BISSELL Inc. (Walker, Mich.).

"Surface cleaning apparatus with scrub mode" was invented by Dean T. Miller (Wyoming, Mich.), Joshua Buck (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Eric Daniel Buehler (Grand Rapids, Mich.), David VanKampen (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Jeffery Swan (Ovid, Mich.), Matthew G. Kamps (Caledonia, Mich.), Brandon Arrendondo (Rockford, Mich.), Patryk D. Akhurst (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Todd R. VanTongeren (Ada, Mich.), Raghu Chandra Sekhar Babu Angara (Singapore), Neil Edward Perez Onal (Singapore) and Dennis Lee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface cleaning apparatus includes a su...