US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 17 for "Systems and methods for determining location and orientation of an oral care device" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,665, issued on March 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for determining location and orientation of an oral care device" was invented by Dietwig Jos Clement Lowet (Tongeren, Belgium) and Jan Martijn Krans (Den Bosch, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining a location of a brush head within a user's mouth during an oral care routine are provided. Example systems and methods involve: determining, during a learning phase, anchor points defining a quadrant of the mouth of the user and a pressure pattern based on pressure sensor data from a pre...