ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,749, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. (Hampton, Canada).
"Surface cleaning apparatus" was invented by Wayne Ernest Conrad (Hampton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone having a primary air inlet and a secondary air inlet. A primary air flow path extends a the floor dirty air inlet of a surface cleaning head to the primary air inlet of the cyclone. An above floor cleaning assembly comprising an above floor cleaning wand a flexible hose, the above floor cleaning assembly having an auxiliary dirty air inlet. A secondary air flow path extends from the auxili...