US Patent Issued to ZODIAC POOL CARE EUROPE on Sept. 16 for "Swimming pool cleaner with orientable liquid flux" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,173, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZODIAC POOL CARE EUROPE (Belberaud, France).

"Swimming pool cleaner with orientable liquid flux" was invented by Bruno Durin (Lauzerville, France) and Philippe Pichon (Villeneuve de Riviere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swimming pool cleaning apparatus may include a body, a hydraulic circuit for liquid circulation between a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet and through a filtration chamber, driving and guiding members of the body on a submerged surface, and defining a guide plane (XY), and an adjustment mechanism for the orientation of a liquid flow, disposed at the outlet of the li...