US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 12 for "System and method for providing an indication of a person's gum health" (Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,144, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for providing an indication of a person's gum health" was invented by Olaf Thomas Johan Antonie Vermeulen (Oss, Netherlands), Steven Charles Deane (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Lucas Petrus Henricus Scheffers (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical analysis of saliva or a fluid-saliva mix obtained during or after an oral care action is performed in order to check whether the saliva or fluid-saliva mix contains blood, which allows for determining whether or not a person may suffer from gingivitis or an...