ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,582, issued on July 29, was assigned to COPERION GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Housing cleaning device for cleaning a housing of a screw machine" was invented by Markus Schmudde (Steinheim a.d. Murr, Germany), Mareike Tabeling (Stuttgart, Germany), Franziska Hagel (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Buchler (Fellbach, Germany) and Patricio Nuzzi (Ditzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing cleaning device for cleaning a housing of a screw machine comprises a support unit displaceable relative to the housing, and at least one housing cleaning unit arranged at the support unit, for cleaning an inner wall of the housing, wherein...