ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,962, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Maytronics Ltd. (Kibutz Yizrael, Israel).
"Pool cleaning robot backwash system and method" was invented by Boaz Ben Dov (Ram On, Israel) and Leo Hershzenhaut (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pool related platform that may include (i) a drive mechanism for moving the pool related platform; (ii) a housing that has a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening; (iii) a filtering unit that comprises a filtering element; (iv) a fluid flow mechanism for inducing a flow of fluid through the filtering unit in a first direction during a filtering process, and for inducing a flow of the...