US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 18 for "Method and system to measure localized inflammation using an oral care device" (British, Dutch, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,192, issued on March 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system to measure localized inflammation using an oral care device" was invented by Vincent Jeanne (Migne Auxances, France), Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Borisenko (Lynnwood, Wash.), Steven Charles Deane (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Olaf Thomas Johan Antonie Vermeulen (Oss, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (700) for localizing inflammation within a user's mouth using an oral care device (10), comprising the steps of: (i) emitting (720) light by one or more light emitters (42) of the oral care device; (ii) detectin...