ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,741, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Shenzhen Aiper Intelligent Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Water surface automatic cleaning apparatus" was invented by Chunlin Cheng (Shenzhen, China), Yuxiang Sun (Shenzhen, China), Dejian Lai (Shenzhen, China) and Jiaqing Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a water surface automatic cleaning device, including a main body, a cavity is provided in the main body, and a garbage bin is disposed at the cavity, an inlet is disposed on a sidewall of the garbage bin, and an anti-leakage baffle is configurated to open or close at least a part of area of the...