ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,717, issued on March 18, was assigned to Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. (Hampton, Canada).
"Surface cleaning apparatus" was invented by Wayne Ernest Conrad (Hampton, Canada) and Daniel Innes (Worthing, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a cyclone chamber having a cyclone bin assembly comprising a cyclone chamber positioned in the air flow path, the cyclone chamber has a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet, a cyclone chamber front end, a cyclone chamber rear end, a cyclone chamber sidewall extending between the front and rear ends of the cyclone chamber and a cyclone axis of r...