ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,072, issued on March 18, was assigned to JIANGSU MIDEA CLEANING APPLIANCES Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China) and MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Scrubber brush assembly and vacuum cleaner having same" was invented by Xia Xu (Suzhou, China), Tom Ford (Suzhou, China) and Xuebing Yin (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a scrubber brush assembly and a vacuum cleaner having same. The scrubber brush assembly includes a roller brush body and a scraping sleeve. The roller brush body is rotatable around a first rotation center line and has a bristle (12) provided thereon. The scraping sleeve is rotatable around a second ...