US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 24 for "Apparatus and method for operating a dental appliance" (American, German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,208, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Apparatus and method for operating a dental appliance" was invented by Xinru Cui (Beijing), Faiz Feisal Sherman (Mason, Ohio), Xiaole Mao (Mason, Ohio), Reiner Engelmohr (Egelsbach, Germany), Christian Peter Mandl (Bad Soden, Germany) and Jonathan Livingston Joyce (Crestview Hills, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a dental appliance by providing a dental appliance including at least one motion sensor that provides motion data, the motion sensor is one of an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an inertial sensor. Furt...