ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,141, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZHEJIANG PRULDE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE Co. LTD. (Jinhua, China).

"Bidirectionally rotatable mechanism, bidirectional sander, and bidirectional cleaner" was invented by Weiming Yang (Jinhua, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectionally rotatable mechanism, a bidirectional sander, and a bidirectional cleaner; the mechanism including an actuator, an inner and an outer shaft, the inner and outer shafts being actuated to rotate by the actuator, the outer shaft being sleeved outside the inner shaft; a speed reducer is arranged between an output shaft of the actuator and the inner shaft; two end...