US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on June 24 for "Hand-held surface cleaning device" (Chinese, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,681, issued on June 24, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Hand-held surface cleaning device" was invented by Daniel Tonderys (Needham, Mass.), Andre D. Brown (Natick, Mass.), Daniel Innes (West Roxbury, Mass.), Bastin Antonisami (Needham, Mass.), Jason B. Thorne (Dover, Mass.), Kai Xu (Suzhou, China), Heliang Chen (Suzhou, China) and Adam Udy (Sutton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held surface cleaning device consistent with aspects of the present disclosure includes a body (or body portion) with a motor, power source and dust cup disposed therein. The body portion also functions as a h...