ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,060, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cleaner" was invented by Dongjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ohkyu Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjun Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongtae Chu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyeonwoo Tak (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaner includes a housing, a body slidably coupled to the housing, a dust container mountable to the housing and detachable from the housing, and a pushing device slidably coupled to the dust container and mountable to the body and detachable from the body."

The patent was filed on Feb. 3, 2022, und...