ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,378, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to EyeVac LLC.
"Combination vacuum and air purifier system and method" was invented by Terry G. Jones (Austin, Texas) and Hua Wenbin (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for environmental maintenance includes a vacuum unit, an air purifier unit, a controller communicatively connected to the vacuum unit and the air purifier unit, a sweep sensor communicatively connected to the controller, and a movement sensor communicatively connected to the controller. The sweep sensor detects debris and sweeper swept into a detectable vicinity of the sweep sensor and the controller turns on the v...