ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,718, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner" was invented by Ashley Alexandre Goncalves (Stourbridge, Great Britain) and Frederick Michael Thornton (Swindon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner includes a suction cavity having an opening through which debris enters the cleaner head, and an air outlet, and an agitator mounted in the suction cavity in a cantilevered manner for rotation relative thereto. The agitator is conical in shape and has a first, free end and a second end which has a larger diameter than th...