ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,112, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Automatic pause control reset mechanism" was invented by Ethan Albright (Mill Creek, Wash.), Yan Gao (Bothell, Wash.), Ryan Richard Johnson (Bothell, Wash.) and Jeffrey Groves (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for automatically resetting pause control on an oral irrigator. The methods use a resilient device which stores potential energy when the oral irrigator is turned on or the pause control feature is turned off. The stored potential energy is then released and switches the pause cont...