US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Nov. 3 for "Adjusting an exposure distance in a hair-cutting unit for a rotary electric shaver" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,714, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Adjusting an exposure distance in a hair-cutting unit for a rotary electric shaver" was invented by Marcus Cornelis Petrelli (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a hair-cutting unit (4) for a rotary electric shaver, which is of the type comprising an external cutting member (10), an internal cutting member and a supporting member (30), an exposure distance (de) over which a skin-contacting surface (12) of a shaving track of the external cutting member (10) protrudes relative to an upper surface (31) of the supporting member ...