ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,376, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Beauty equipment" was invented by Hirotoshi Oikaze (Shiga, Japan), Yuki Chikazawa (Nara, Japan) and Masato Kinoshita (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hair care device includes: housing including suction port and discharge port; heater disposed inside housing; and spray including two-fluid nozzle that discharges an atomized liquid. Housing includes, inside housing, air blow flow channel disposed between suction port and discharge port, and branch flow channel disposed below air blow flow channel. Heater is disposed ...