US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Oct. 7 for "Upright surface treatment apparatus having removable pod" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,458, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Upright surface treatment apparatus having removable pod" was invented by Scott B Niedzwecki (East Walpole, Mass.), Andre D. Brown (Natick, Mass.), Mingshun (Aaron) Su (Suzhou, China), Robert Yang (Suzhou, China), Lee M. Cottrell (Newton, Mass.) and Patrick Cleary (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable surface treatment apparatus may include a wand a pod removably coupled to the wand. The wand may have a first distal end that is configured to couple to a surface cleaning head and a second distal end that is configured to couple ...