US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 18 for "Wear-out detection for an oral care system" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,499, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Wear-out detection for an oral care system" was invented by Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium) and Lutz Christian Gerhardt (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear-out assessment for an oral care system (14) (e.g. an oral cleaning device) is disclosed. A sensor unit (16) of the oral care system is adapted to provide a sensor signal related to a cleaning efficacy of a cleaning function of the oral care system when generated when the oral care system is inside a user's mouth. The sensor unit (16) may be, or may be coupl...