US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Nov. 11 for "Handheld surface cleaner" (British, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,183, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Handheld surface cleaner" was invented by Zachary Shonfeld (Cambridge, Mass.), AiMin Xu (Jiangsu, China), Jemma Beedie (Greater London, Great Britain), Devan Schappler (Waltham, Mass.), Oliver Holmes (Greater London, Great Britain), Eleanor Saunders (Greater London, Great Britain), Lois Jones (Greater London, Great Britain) and Adam Udy (Eastbourne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative handheld surface cleaners and methods of using handheld surface cleaners are provided. In an exemplary implementation, the handheld surface...