ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,472, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).
"Attachment for a handheld appliance" was invented by Annmarie Rita Nicolson (Bristol, Great Britain), Jonathan James Harvey Heffer (Swindon, Great Britain) and Robert Mark Brett Coulton (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment includes a casing having an air inlet for receiving airflow from a hair styling apparatus, a hair engaging member supported by the casing, an airflow outlet between the casing and the hair engaging member and shaped to direct air over an external surface of the hair engaging member and airflow g...