ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,823, issued on Jan. 27.
"Self-flying hands-free shaving apparatus" was invented by Natalie Vidal (Jupiter, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-flying hands-free shaving apparatus includes: a drone configured to autonomously fly and hover in air; video cameras that capture live video of the surroundings; and a processor that performs real-time computer vision analysis of live video, to guide the apparatus at which directions to fly and where to remain hovering. A telescopic arm extends from the hovering apparatus, and pivots or rotates to bring an affixed electric shaver towards a face-region of a human, for shaving it. Tactile...