ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,093, issued on April 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Improving hair-clamping performance of a pair of hair-clamping elements" was invented by Johannes Beugels (Peize, Netherlands), Joost Tomas Glazenburg (Groningen, Netherlands), Geert Willem De Goeij (Drachten, Netherlands) and Robbert Freerk Johan Van Der Scheer (Groningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head unit of a depilation appliance comprises at least one pair (11) of hair-clamping elements (12, 13), wherein the hair-clamping elements (12, 13) have tweezer surfaces (14, 15) which are arranged to face each other, and which ...