ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,531, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Hairstyling device" was invented by Elizabeth Chania Hickey (Bristol, Great Britain), Andrew Collingwood Watson (Gloucester, Great Britain) and Lili Tao (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hairstyling device is provided. The hairstyling device includes a heatable hair contact member having a hair-contactable surface, the hair contact member being operable to apply heat to a tress of hair via the hair-contactable surface by movement of the hair contact member along the tress of hair between a first end of the tress and a seco...