ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,746, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Extraction cleaner" was invented by Adam Udy (Eastbourne, Great Britain), Lee Cottrell (Edenbridge, Great Britain), Chi Ho Hui (London), Jian cheng Wang (Suzhou, China), Fariha Ahmed (Brighton, Mass.), Jennifer Andrews (Cambridge, Mass.), Devan Schappler (Woburn, Mass.), Dejian He (Suzhou, China), Kevin O'Malley (London), Ognjen Vrdoljak (Quebec, Canada), Peter Cahaly (West Newbury, Mass.), Scott Niedzwecki (Plainville, Mass.), Bartholomew De Banzie Lampard (London), Qiang Liu (Suzhou, China), Yinhui Li (Suzhou, China), Daniel Innes (Worthing, Great Britain), Jordan Ridgley (High Wycombe, Great Brita...