US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 1 for "Oral care system for interdental space detection" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,226, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Oral care system for interdental space detection" was invented by Lutz Christian Gerhardt (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Mart Kornelis-Jan Te Velde (Helmond, Netherlands), Bart Gottenbos (Budel, Netherlands), Felipe Maia Masculo (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a controller for use with an oral care device; wherein the controller is configured to estimate the location of the oral care device relative to an interdental space in a mouth using predetermined data and curr...