US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 18 for "System for determining a brushing angle of an oral care device" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,280, issued on March 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for determining a brushing angle of an oral care device" was invented by Taylor Bevis (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (300) for determining a brushing angle of an oral care device (10) is provided. The method includes the steps of: generating (310), by a controller (30) of the oral care device, a drive signal to move a drive train (24) and produce a motion of a bristle field (18) of the oral care device; measuring (320), via a sensor (28), force applied by a user to the bristle field of the oral care device; an...