ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,564, issued on May 12, was assigned to Clean Core LLC (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"System and method for centralized steam cleaning" was invented by Sean Blanchard (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Daniel Blexrude (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain examples of the disclosure concern a centralized steam cleaning system which includes a central control unit and a pipe network distributed within a building. The pipe network can include a vacuum pipeline and a water pipeline extending alongside each other."

The patent was filed on Nov. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/521,165.

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