ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,298, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ZODIAC POOL SYSTEMS LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Lift and extraction systems for automatic swimming pool cleaners" was invented by Hendrikus Johannes van der Meijden (Midrand, Canada) and David Holgreaves (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift and extraction system for an automatic swimming pool cleaner may facilitate removal from the of the automatic swimming pool cleaner from a swimming pool, deployment of the automatic swimming pool cleaner into a swimming pool, and/or storage of the automatic swimming pool cleaner outside of the swimming pool. The lift and extraction systems ma...