ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,890, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Haircare appliance" was invented by Jack Iain Bracken-Lobb (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haircare apparatus has a plurality of capacitive sensors, each capacitive sensor configured to provide a capacitance reading indicative of hair proximal to the haircare apparatus. The haircare apparatus has a moisture estimation module configured to estimate, based on capacitance readings of the plurality of capacitive sensors, a moisture level of the hair proximal to the haircare apparatus."
The patent was filed on Oct. 13, 202...