US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on May 12 for "Vacuum cleaner and docking station for use with the same" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,561, issued on May 12, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Vacuum cleaner and docking station for use with the same" was invented by Daniel J. Innes (West Roxbury, Mass.), Andre D. Brown (Natick, Mass.), Jason B. Thorne (Dover, Mass.), Kai Xu (Suzhou, China) and Sam Liu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for a vacuum cleaner may include a receptacle configured to engage at least a portion of the vacuum cleaner such that, in response to engaging the receptacle, a vacuum cleaner flow path extending within the vacuum cleaner is transitioned from a cleaning flow path to an evacuation fl...