ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,950, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BIOINITIALS GmbH (Biel-Benken, Switzerland).

"Brush head, toothbrush, analysis system and method for the operation thereof" was invented by Christoph Schafer (Engelberg, Switzerland), Fabio Cirillo (Ormalingen, Switzerland), Christian Jaggi (Biel-Benken, Switzerland), Stefan Schaffner (Munchenstein, Switzerland), Stefan Stubinger (Binningen, Switzerland) and Saso Jezernik (Regensdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brush head of a toothbrush includes a plurality of bristles for cleaning teeth and a sensor unit for monitoring the health status of a user regarding development of parad...