ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,451, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Agitator with hair removal" was invented by Adam Udy (Sutton, Great Britain), Andre D. Brown (Natick, Mass.) and Steven P. Carter (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable agitator is used in a surface clearing head of a surface cleaning apparatus. The agitator is coupled to the cleaning head at least partially within an agitator chamber and is rotated about a pivot axis. The agitator includes an elongated agitator body and a hair migration portion. The hair migration portion includes a continuous row of bristles and a sidewall. The continuou...