US Patent Issued to Emerson Professional Tools on March 31 for "Drain cleaner with cable counting" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,447, issued on March 31, was assigned to Emerson Professional Tools LLC (Elyria, Ohio).

"Drain cleaner with cable counting" was invented by Alex Michael Cole (Columbia Station, Ohio) and Jeffrey Szucs (Ashland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drain cleaner includes a housing and inner and outer drums disposed in the housing. The inner drum is rotatable relative to the housing. The inner drum and the outer drum form an annular drum channel for receiving a drain cleaning cable. The inner drum defines an inner drum chamber. A drain cleaning cable is disposed within the annular drum channel. The drain cleaner includes a ferrous pi...