US Patent Issued to Dyson Technology on Nov. 3 for "Self-cleaning vacuum cleaner" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,370, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).

"Self-cleaning vacuum cleaner" was invented by Robert Matthew Stringer (Swindon, Great Britain), Gemma McLuckie (Poole, Great Britain), Michael Joseph Mathers (Bath, Great Britain) and Stefan Koch (Dorset, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station is provided for allowing decontaminating parts of a floor care device. The floor care device comprises at least one part that is susceptible to contamination when the floor care device is used in a floor care mode. The method may comprise detecting a transition of the floor care dev...