US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on April 29 for "Skin treatment device and method of controlling a skin treatment device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,878, issued on April 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Skin treatment device and method of controlling a skin treatment device" was invented by Joop Hendriks (Groningen, Netherlands), Joost Willem Frederik Nengerman (Groningen, Netherlands), Daniele Solerio (Groningen, Netherlands), Sachin Kumarswamy (Groningen, Netherlands) and Martijn Van Zutphen (Marum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin treatment device provides feedback to a user relating to the force or pressure they are applying. In addition to the feedback provided for indicating that the pressure is too high, correct, or to...