ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,129, issued on July 15, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany).
"Household appliance and method of operating a household appliance" was invented by Torsten Lang (Solingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a household appliance (1) comprising a movable first functional unit (10) for providing a first appliance function to a user, an electrical second functional unit (20) for providing a second appliance function to the user, and an operating device (11) for powering the first functional unit (10), comprising an electric motor (12), a connection (13) for supplying power to th...