ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,273, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kadant Nordic AB (Huskvama, Sweden).

"Fabric cleaning systems and methods using synchronized cross-machine direction traversing cleaning heads" was invented by Werner Michael Raschka (Neuss, Germany) and Marcelo De Boni (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric cleaning system is disclosed that includes first and second cleaning heads on opposite sides of a fabric that travels along a machine direction, each of the first and second cleaning heads being mounted on first and second beams that extend along a cross-machine direction, and each of the first and second cleaning heads be...