ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,113, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Braun GmbH (Kronberg, Germany).

"Method for controlling overpressure in oral-care implement" was invented by Torsten Klemm (Eschborn, Germany), Ferdinand Hermann (Koenigstein, Germany), Bettina Rowlands (Bad Homburg, Germany), Isabel Cecilia Martinez (Kronberg, Germany), Lutz Lisseck (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Norbert Schaefer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Karen Lynn Claire-Zimmet (Kronberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling overpressure in an electric oral-care implement having a treatment head with at least one functional element driven by a motor. The...