ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,288, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Braun GMBH (Kronberg, Germany).

"Hair removal device" was invented by Renata Burghardt (Kronberg, Germany), Jan Laske (Eppstein, Germany), Anja Weigel (Idstein, Germany) and Reinhold Eichhorn (Idstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hair removal device, in particular a hair trimmer or a shaver or a hair trimmer portion of a shaver, comprising a handle with a motor and a hair removal head, said hair removal head being provided with at least a first hair cutting unit with an outer blade and an inner blade, said inner blade being reciprocally moveable a...