US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Oct. 28 for "Surface cleaning device with odor management" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,450, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Surface cleaning device with odor management" was invented by Ryan M. Copeland (Watertown, Mass.), Samuel J. Levine (Needham, Mass.), Justin G. Riley (Needham, Mass.), Daniel R. Der Marderosian (Westwood, Mass.), Qiang Liu (Suzhou, China), Peng Fei Liu (Needham, Mass.), Kui Liu (Suzhou, China), Bo Gao (Needham, Mass.), Jiancheng Wang (Suzhou, China) and Jeremy McDaniel (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface cleaning device includes a nozzle and an odor dial assembly. The nozzle includes a nozzle housing and a dirty air passageway. The odor d...