US Patent Issued to Colgate-Palmolive on March 4 for "Oral cavity treatment device" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,213, issued on March 4, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"Oral cavity treatment device" was invented by Jianhong Qiu (Warren, N.J.), Erin Speicher (Hoboken, N.J.) and Leighton Davies-Smith (Lebanon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooth sensitivity treatment device and an applicator tip thereof. The tooth sensitivity treatment device may be configured to dispense a sensitivity formulation onto a user's teeth. The tooth sensitivity treatment device may further be configured to massage the sensitivity formulation onto the user's teeth after dispensing. The applicator may have a bottom end, a top end, and a longit...