ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,045, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Anhui Shuangpeng Industrial Co. Ltd. (Anqing, China).

"Electric toothbrush and method for controlling the same" was invented by Hailong Chen (Anqing, China), Wangpeng Chen (Anqing, China) and Yihang Chen (Anqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides an electric toothbrush and a method for controlling the same. The method includes: acquiring a current state of the electric toothbrush and a user input, the user input being acquired through an operable button on a body of the electric toothbrush; in response to the current state of the electric toothbrush being a s...