ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,717, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Allergen reduction device" was invented by Kai Xu (Suzhou, China) and Peter Hutchinson (Needham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An allergen reduction device may include a body, a dust cup removably coupled to the body, a plurality of agitators rotatably coupled to the body and disposed within respective agitator cavities defined in the body, a suction motor disposed within the body and configured to cause air to flow along corresponding cleaning airflow paths from the agitator cavities into the dust cup, a hot air outlet fluidly coupled to the suc...