ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,955, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany).

"Attachment for a cleaning device with moisture detection and method for moisture detection" was invented by Benjamin Strang (Solingen, Germany), Birgit Petersen (Grevelsberg, Germany), Robin Janssen (Duisburg, Germany), Marc Papenheim (Wuppertal, Germany) and Roland Kraus (Mettmann, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cleaning device, in particular a suction wiper, having a housing with at least one cleaning medium for receiving a cleaning agent, having a cleaning medium carrier for receiving the cleaning mediu...