ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,763, issued on July 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for controlling a suction device" was invented by Matthias Christian Schwille (Tuebingen, Germany) and Wolfgang Herberger (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a suction device, in which the suction device includes at least one electric motor at least for generating a suction function, includes at least detecting vibration data on a suction hose of the suction device, evaluating the vibration data by comparing it with comparison data and generating a comparison result, and controlling the electric motor in acc...