US Patent Issued to Silicon Valley Innovations on Sept. 29 for "Personal cleansing wand" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,836, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Silicon Valley Innovations Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Personal cleansing wand" was invented by Gail S. Lebovic (Reno, Nev.), Michael J. Drews (Palo Alto, Calif.), Steven N. Grolle (Los Altos, Calif.) and George D. Hermann (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices for cleansing the internal surface of various body cavities. The devices generally include a handle and one or more cleansing tips having different sets of cleansing surfaces. In addition to removing debris, and disrupting bacterial biofilms so as to make these bacteria more susceptible to various cleans...