US Patent Issued to Colgate-Palmolive on March 24 for "Oral care system, implement, and/or kit" (New Jersey, Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,511, issued on March 24, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"Oral care system, implement, and/or kit" was invented by Brian Bloch (Hillsborough, N.J.), Takahide Okai (Highland Park, N.J.), Geoffrey Baldwin (Westport, Conn.), Danielle Denis (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kimberly Curtis (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral care device having a head with cleaning elements and a handle coupled to the head. The handle may include a selectively rotatable ring arranged between the head and a distal end of the handle that is configured to allow a user to select a desired mode of operation of the oral care device. The handl...