ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,664, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Smart nozzle and a surface cleaning device implementing same" was invented by Damian Howard (Winchester, Mass.) and Andre D. Brown (Natick, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the present disclosure is directed to nozzle control circuitry for use in surface cleaning devices that preferably reduces overall power consumption of a surface cleaning device by detecting the start of a cleaning operation by a user before energizing one or more components such as an agitator. The nozzle control circuitry can detect a cleaning operation based on...