ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,885, issued on March 25, was assigned to TINECO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Cleaning apparatus" was invented by Chunfeng Zhou (Suzhou, China), Jincheng Xue (Suzhou, China), Zhen Chen (Suzhou, China), Yonghai Liu (Suzhou, China), Rongyang Cheng (Suzhou, China) and Yinglong Wei (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a vacuum head, a collection bin, a cleaning tray, a filter assembly, and a cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus includes: a housing, a rolling brush, and a cleaning assembly, where the cleaning assembly includes a cleaning medium inlet and a plurality of cleaning medium spray...