ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,740, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. (Hampton, Canada).
"Surface cleaning apparatus" was invented by Wayne Ernest Conrad (Hampton, Canada), Daniel Innes (Worthing, Great Britain), Dave Petersen (Bowmanville, Canada) and Adam Udy (Eastbourne, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upright surface cleaner has a surface cleaning head having a solid collection chamber that is separated from a surface cleaning head liquid collection chamber by a porous divider wherein, when the surface cleaner is used to clean a floor, the surface cleaning head liquid collection chamber is positioned at a lo...