ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,255, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALITY TIME SOLUTIONS INC. (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

"Hair styling template" was invented by Nissim Yeheskel (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) and Menashe Yeheskel-Baum (Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A template for improving hair style, has a series of ridges around an outer periphery thereof, and is preferably in the shape of an asymmetric quatrefoil, with two opposite points on the quatrefoil each having a protrusion to facilitate aligning for hair styling."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2, 2024, under Application No. 18/430,776.

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