ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,751, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).
"Vacuum cleaner" was invented by Massimo Camplani (Bristol, Great Britain), Andrew Collingwood Watson (Gloucester, Great Britain), David Alan Millington (Swindon, Great Britain) and Nathan Lawson McLean (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner includes: a sensor configured to generate sensor signals based on sensed motion and orientation of the vacuum cleaner; a human-computer interface, HCI; and a controller configured to: process the generated sensor signals to determine a type of cleaning activity being performed ...