US Patent Issued to Nilfisk on Aug. 26 for "High-dump hopper for floor cleaning machine and method for cleaning a floor" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,611, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Nilfisk A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"High-dump hopper for floor cleaning machine and method for cleaning a floor" was invented by Stephen G. Zalaznik (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Corry P. Gunderson (Rogers, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a high dump hopper system wherein a debris hopper can be split into two hoppers for positioning adjacent a wheel of the floor cleaning machine. The hoppers, split or not, can be located near the front of the machine such that the overall length of the floor cleaning machine need not be extended. A splitter can be positioned proximat...