ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,910, issued on June 23, was assigned to RUSSO TRADING COMPANY INC. (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

"Cleaning brush for cleaning tools such as trowels and grout floats" was invented by William Phillip Russo (Delafield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning brush includes first and second rigid base parts which are coupled together by a coupler. Each base part has bristles extending therefrom. Free ends of the bristles extending from the first base part face free ends of the bristles extending from the second base part."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/181,990.

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