ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,235, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Vacuum cleaner having adaptive dirt identification and method for operating the vacuum cleaner" was invented by Maximilian Fremerey (Saal an der Saale, Germany), Simon Richter (Gersfeld, Germany) and Andreas Seufert (Poppenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner includes a dirt sensor determining a value of an amount of dirt currently being sucked up, a floor sensor indicating a degree of hardness of the surface currently being vacuumed, a display module, and a control module having at least one automatic mode outputting the dirt value on t...