ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,209, issued on April 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Personal care device configured to perform a light-based hair removal" was invented by Edgar Van Gool (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands), Felix Godfried Peter Peeters (Heide, Netherlands), Marjolein Yvonne Jansen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Eyob Atanfu Amra (Noord Barabant, Netherlands), Eric Gerard Marie Van Kempen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Lars Christian Casper (Den Bosch, Netherlands), Wilbert Bernard Roger Pennings (Best, Netherlands) and Tim Tielemans (Heeze, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided a p...