ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,092, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Braun GMBH (Kronberg, Germany).
"Electric beard trimmer" was invented by Xiaolan Xu (Oberursel, Germany), Roman Roder (Oberursel, Germany) and Andreas Peter (Kronberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutter system is for an electric shaver and trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements with two rows of comb-like cutting teeth at opposite edges thereof and cutting perforations between said rows of comb-like cutting teeth, wherein said cutting elements are movably supported relative to each other by a support structure. The cutting perforations are arranged in two separat...