ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,982, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Hair care appliance" was invented by Colby Jackson Higgins (Randolph, Mass.), Adam Udy (Eastbourne, Great Britain), Stephen Murphy (Watertown, Mass.), Stephan James Godden (Woking, Great Britain) and Richard Mathias (Wellesley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the han...