ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,466, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VERSUNI HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Cleaning device and cleaner nozzle designed to be used in a cleaning device" was invented by Bastiaan Johannes De Wit (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Anke Rieka Meulendijks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jamila Midhat (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Orhan Kahya (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Chengang Cao (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Rinse Hendrik Bosma (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Fermin Espin Franco (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Robert Friso Burgers (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Albert Al-Shorachi (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Arjan Sander Vonk (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...