ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,591, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Braun GmbH (Kronberg, Germany).
"Handle for oral-care implement for safe and hygienic use by multiple users and method of disinfecting the same" was invented by Joern Utsch (Eschborn, Germany), Ulrich Stoerkel (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Bianka Becker-Salzsaeuler (Liederbach, Germany), Boris Atlas (Wiesbaden, Germany), Michael Anthony Kaminski (Cincinnati), Todd Lynn Watterson (Liberty Township, Ohio), Darcie Ann Ohlman (Monroe, Ohio), Andrea Schuering (Eschborn, Germany), Alexander Hilscher (Oberursel, Germany), Kervin Heinrich Kuechler (Darmstadt, Germany), Andreas Maennchen (Frankfurt, Germany) and Erwin Paul Mark (Eschborn, Germany).
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