US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 11 for "Handheld personal care device and a method of estimating a position and/or an orientation of a handheld personal device relative to a subject" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,094, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Handheld personal care device and a method of estimating a position and/or an orientation of a handheld personal device relative to a subject" was invented by Yannyk Parulian Julian Bourquin (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Martin Jurna (Den Bosch, Netherlands), Vincentius Paulus Buil (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Jonathan Alambra Palero (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld personal care device having one or more light emitting elements and one or more light receiving elements is disclosed. Each of the light receivin...