ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,496, issued on May 13, was assigned to Braun GMBH (Kronberg, Germany).
"Method of manufacturing a hair cutter" was invented by Andreas Erndt (Kelkheim, Germany), Thorsten Piesker (Friedrichsdorf, Germany), Wolfgang Stegmann (Moerfelden, Germany) and Bernhard Sikora (Kelkheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates a method of manufacturing a hair cutting device with an outer metal shell, comprising the steps of forming the outer metal shell into a desired shape and mounting functional components for performing or helping to perform a personal care treatment into and/or onto said formed outer metal shell....