ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,543, issued on March 17, was assigned to VOOCOO Innovations Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Semi-automatic combing device" was invented by Wenlong Yi (Shenzhen, China), Junkai Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Jiawen Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semi-automatic combing device includes a housing assembly, an operating assembly and a combing assembly. The combing assembly includes a hair-combing member fixed on the housing assembly and a hair-pushing member movably connected to the housing assembly, and the hair-combing member and the hair-pushing member are arranged crosswise; the operating assembly includes an operati...