US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Aug. 5 for "Agitator with debrider and hair removal" (British, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,720, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Agitator with debrider and hair removal" was invented by Daniel R. Der Marderosian (Westwood, Mass.), John Freese (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Gordon Howes (Suzhou, China), Wenxiu Gao (Suzhou, China), David S. Clare (London), Nathan Herrmann (Middlebury, Vt.), Hugh Jamie Croggon (London), Nicholas Sardar (London), Tyler Smith (Boston), Ian Liu (Suzhou, China) and Jiancheng Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface cleaning apparatus including a body defining an agitation chamber, an agitator partially disposed within the agitation chamber ...