US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Dec. 2 for "Nozzle for a surface treatment apparatus and a surface treatment apparatus having the same" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,748, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Nozzle for a surface treatment apparatus and a surface treatment apparatus having the same" was invented by Daniel R. Der Marderosian (Westwood, Mass.), Nathan Herrmann (Middlebury, Vt.), Max P. Lacoma (Huntington, N.Y.), Devan Schappler (Bedford, N.H.), Adam Udy (Sutton, Great Britain), Donald Williams (Boston), Steven Gacin (Pawtucket, R.I.), Patrick Cleary (Allston, Mass.) and Xavier Cullere (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agitator including an elongated main body configured to rotate about a pivot axis, one or more soft cleaning fea...