US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 15 for "Oral care mouthpiece connected to larger mass for increased vibration" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,024, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Oral care mouthpiece connected to larger mass for increased vibration" was invented by Jay Wolfer (Kirkland, Wash.), Regan Starkey Foster (Lynnwood, Wash.), Anandh Balakrishnan (Tulalip, Wash.), Gregory Russ Goddard (Kenmore, Wash.), Scott E. Hall (Issaquah, Wash.) and Kelly Laurence Hirsch (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a device that includes a vibrating mouthpiece, a source of vibratory movement is connected to a relatively large, relatively stationary mass, or anchor, so the equal and opposite vibrational momentum of th...