ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,182, issued on March 18.
"Oral care monitoring and habit forming for children" was invented by Eric Enyang Huang (Andover, Mass.) and Xiongbing Sun (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brushing tracker configured to be mounted to a toothbrush has a motion sensor and a transceiver that collect and output raw motion data. The raw motion data is received by a relay and forwarded to a cloud-based remote processing system that processes the raw motion data to determine brushing adequacy based on predetermined criteria. The motion sensor and transceiver are disposed in a flexible case. An attachment band enables the brushing ...