US Patent Issued to Dignity Health on Oct. 20 for "Toothbrush with controlled suction and/or irrigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,982, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco).

"Toothbrush with controlled suction and/or irrigation" was invented by Virginia Prendergast (San Francisco), Cynthia Kleiman (San Francisco), Charles Lewis (San Francisco), Gary Lauterbach (San Francisco), Scott Castanon (San Francisco), Dylann Ceriani (San Francisco) and Michael Williams (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toothbrush system configured to be coupled to an external suction source. The toothbrush system includes a shaft with a main body with a first end and a second end, and a bristle array and a suction port arranged at the second end....