ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,273, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SUGINO MACHINE Ltd. (Namerikawa, Japan).

"Cleaning apparatus and rotary table" was invented by Kodai Nakazaki (Namerikawa, Japan) and Hiroki Haremaki (Namerikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cleaning apparatus that cleans a cleaning target portion of a workpiece by a downward nozzle or a lance. The cleaning apparatus includes: a support table rotatable about a first axis that extends horizontally and having a first through hole that passes through the support table in a direction of a second axis perpendicular to the first axis; a cleaning table on which the workpiece is to...