ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,493, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OOO "BRENDSHAB" (Moscow).

"Squeeze bucket with flat mop" was invented by Vsevolod Alexandrovich Samoilov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a squeeze bucket with a bucket body and a handle, a flat mop, and a water squeezing section. The water squeezing section has an opening for accommodating a flat mop working part and a squeezing element. The flat mop provides a mop rod, the flat mop working part rotatably mounted on the mop rod, and a cleaning cloth mounted on the flat mop working part. The bucket body is divided into a main chamber and a squeezing chamber ...