ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,771, issued on May 12, was assigned to Braun GmbH (Kronberg, Germany).
"Universal base for electric toothbrush" was invented by Matthew Lloyd Newman (Oberursel, Germany) and Matthias Paschold (Mainz-Kastel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal base for an electric toothbrush has a body comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface therebetween. The base can be coupled with the toothbrush for wireless communication therebetween. The base includes a charging component for inductively charging the electric toothbrush, a Bluetooth component for communicating usage data received from the toothbrush during a b...