US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Jan. 13 for "Removable rotatable driven agitator for surface cleaning head" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,977, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Removable rotatable driven agitator for surface cleaning head" was invented by Kai Xu (Suzhou, China), AiMing Xu (Suzhou, China), Michael D'Amico (Mansfield, Mass.) and Peter Hutchinson (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable rotatable driven agitator is used in a surface cleaning head and is driven by a drive mechanism that axially engages a driven end of the agitator. The removable rotatable driven agitator may be located in an openable agitator chamber for purposes of removing debris and/or removing the agitator. The openable agit...