ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,213, issued on April 14, was assigned to Procare UK Ltd. (Bristol, Ukraine).

"Hair tool" was invented by Jonathan Crowley (Bristol, Great Britain) and Myles Bates (Weston-super-Mare, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a hair tool comprising a handle and a spine extending from the handle to a top, and two opposing ends which extend from the spine respectively at a top and proximal to the handle, to form a structural base with the spine, wherein the comb further comprises a plurality of teeth extending from one side of the spine between the two opposing ends, and wherein the structural base comprises a cha...