ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,004, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. (Hampton, Canada).
"Surface cleaning apparatus with different cleaning configurations" was invented by Wayne Ernest Conrad (Hampton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus has a surface cleaning head, a support structure moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a storage position and a floor cleaning position and a portable cleaning unit removably mountable to the support structure. The support structure has a lower portion and an upper portion, the upper portion is rotationally mounted to the lower portio...