ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,877, issued on June 24, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).
"Oral treatment device" was invented by Xiang Chen (Somerset, N.J.), Suman Chopra (Monroe, N.J.), Lin Fei (Kendall Park, N.J.) and Udayan Umapathi (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral treatment device for dispensing an oral treatment composition onto a user's teeth. The oral treatment device may include a storage and delivery component and an applicator component. The storage and delivery component may include a body having a reservoir, a frangible capsule containing the oral treatment composition located in the reservoir, and a delivery mem...