ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,108, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Suction gun and material suction device" was invented by Zhihui Zhen (Ningde, China) and Tao Zhang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction gun includes a gun head is provided with a material suction port configured to suck a material located in an area for sucking, and an air blowing structure including an air blowing pipe and an air blowing hole provided on a pipe wall of the air blowing pipe. The air blowing hole is configured to blow an air flow so as to blow the material to the material suction port."

The patent...