ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,377, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).

"Haircare appliance" was invented by Ayrton Lloyd Taylor Peel (Gloucester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a haircare appliance including: an air inlet; an air outlet; an airflow generator for generating an airflow from the air inlet to the air outlet; a heater for heating the airflow; and a hair treatment chamber for receiving hair, the hair treatment chamber in fluid communication with the air outlet. The hair treatment chamber includes a wall, an opening through which hair is insertable into the hair treatment chamb...