ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,988, issued on June 30, was assigned to Braun GMBH (Kronberg, Germany).

"Hair removal apparatus" was invented by Martin Fuellgrabe (Bad Camberg, Germany), Stefan Fuerst (Kronberg, Germany), Christian Neyer (Eschborn, Germany), Johannes Julian Weinkauff (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Lucy Abigail Zimmermann (Kronberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair removal apparatus is provided including: a first sensor that is configured to determine a current handling of the hair removal apparatus during the hair removal operation, an actuator for changing a hair removal characteristic of the hair removal apparatus, a control unit f...