ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,135, issued on May 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Oral care device and method" was invented by Lutz Christian Gerhardt (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Neil Francis Joye (Waalre, Netherlands), Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium), Achim Rudolf Hilgers (Alsdorf, Germany) and Amir Hussein Rmaile (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral care device (8) adapted to generate an RF field for performing an oral cleaning function. The device includes a cleaning unit (10) for receipt in the mouth which includes a conductor arrangement (18, 19) which is driven with a drive signal to gene...