ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,354, issued on April 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Oral treatment device" was invented by Priscilla Brandao Silva (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Lutz Christian Gerhardt (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium) and Gerardus Johannes Nicolaas Doodeman (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for an oral treatment unit, or an assembly of a plurality of oral treatment units, for confining an electromagnetic field having a frequency in the range of 100 kHz to 300 MHz and adapted to be inserted into an oral cavity, which may form part of an or...