US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 11 for "Mouthpiece component and method of manufacture" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,909, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Mouthpiece component and method of manufacture" was invented by Olaf Thomas Johan Antonie Vermeulen (Oss, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a mouthpiece component for use in an intra oral illumination system, the mouthpiece component comprising a core structure which defines at least one waveguide for receiving light which is directable at least partly by the waveguide along at least one light path of the core structure, wherein each at least one light path defines a propagation direction for light in a propagatio...