ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,512, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bakblade Ltd. (London).

"Safety razor with comb and blade" was invented by Matthew James Dryfhout (Homer Glen, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety razor removes hair from skin using the cutting blade comprising a sharp edge along an elongated side of a planar surface. An outer comb has a row of outer teeth running along the planar surface on an outside of the cutting blade, each outer tooth is substantially perpendicular to the sharp edge and spaced with a gap between the row of the outer teeth and the planar surface of the cutting blade. Ends of the row of outer teeth comprise outer t...