US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on Feb. 24 for "Electrostatic discharge mitigation of vacuum cleaners" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,957, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Electrostatic discharge mitigation of vacuum cleaners" was invented by Sanjay Bora (Germantown, Wis.), Nathan Beining (Milwaukee) and Anthony R. Sleck (Lisbon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner including a suction motor assembly having an impeller configured to generate vacuum pressure, a motor driving the impeller, and a motor shroud including a conductive material and at least partially covering the impeller. The vacuum cleaner also includes a battery pack configured to selectively power the motor and having a positive term...