ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,763, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"System for diagnosing oral care conditions and remediating same, and methods thereof" was invented by Hrebesh Molly Subhash (Somerset, N.J.) and Benny E. Urban Jr. (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure may be directed to a system including a diagnostic device configured to illuminate a portion of the oral cavity and detect information relating to emission fluorescence and/or back scattered light relating to the illuminated portion of the oral cavity. A processor may be configured to receive the information relating to the emissi...