US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on April 8 for "Personal care system including a person care device drive unit and multiple functional units" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,182, issued on April 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Personal care system including a person care device drive unit and multiple functional units" was invented by Bernardo Arnoldus Mulder (Dronrijp, Netherlands), Joost Willem Frederik Nengerman (Groningen, Netherlands), Renger Ypenburg (Eelderwolde, Netherlands), Johan Bron (Augustinausga, Netherlands) and Peter Sofrides Viet (Ureterp, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal care device drive unit comprises a main body housing a motor and enabling releasable connection to any selected one of a set of different functional units. A c...