ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,955, issued on June 3, was assigned to BIC Violex Single Member S.A. (Anoixi, Greece).

"Handle assembly and recycling process therefor" was invented by Nikolaos Ovvadias (Anoixi, Greece), Vasileios Stamoulis (Anoixi, Greece), Stratos Christofidellis (Anoixi, Greece) and Georgios Paspatis (Anoixi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handle assembly for a hair removal device, including a handle with a connection portion for supporting a hair removal head and an elongated grip portion, at least a first accessory component that is disassemblable from the grip portion, and a holding mechanism, a first portion of the holding mechanism b...