ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,683, issued on March 11.

"Brushing accessory" was invented by Itzhak Harazi (Petah-Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brushing accessory, including a first member, including a hole and a brush fixed thereto, and a second member, including a motor for rotating a first elliptic gear, a second elliptic gear interlaced with the first elliptic gear, and a pin extending from the second elliptic gear into the hole of the first member, thereby moving the brush on a user's body as a function of changing locations of the pin, the locations changing as a function of the interlacing of the elliptic gears."

The patent was filed on D...