ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,828, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Braun GmbH (Kronberg, Germany).

"Charger" was invented by Torsten Klemm (Eschborn, Germany) and Manal Ali (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger for charging a rechargeable energy source of a personal care device has a housing having a charging region for positioning the personal care device, a circuit for performing a charging procedure of the rechargeable energy source of the personal care device, a motion sensor for detecting a motion of at least a portion of the charger, preferably wherein the charger comprises a motion enhancer, a controller coupled with the charging ...