US Patent Issued to Kreepy Krauly Australia on April 22 for "Zig zag pattern swimming pool cleaner" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,491, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kreepy Krauly Australia Pty Ltd (Western Australia, Australia).

"Zig zag pattern swimming pool cleaner" was invented by Wieslaw Niewiarowski (Western Australia, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction pool cleaner for cleaning of a pool surface, the pool cleaner comprising a housing having a debris inlet for suction-drawn flow of water and debris, a first leg assembly and a second leg assembly, each leg assembly being pivotable with respect to the housing, each leg assembly having a rotatable loop track for moving the pool cleaner over the pool surface, the tracks being selectively r...