US Patent Issued to STANLEY BLACK & DECKER on Aug. 12 for "Portable backpack vacuum having fold-in harness" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,045, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Portable backpack vacuum having fold-in harness" was invented by Wenxin Na (Marriottsville, Md.), James Standaloft (Gateshead, Great Britain) and Karl Palm (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable backpack vacuum having a pair of housing members and a fold-in harness member that is pivotably movable relative to an upper housing member between a deployed position when the portable backpack vacuum is in use to a stowed position when the portable backpack vacuum is not in use and a lower housing is removed from the upper housing. In th...