ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,474, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Epilating device" was invented by Joost Tomas Glazenburg (Groningen, Netherlands) and Johannes Beugels (Peize, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An epilating device for extracting hairs out of a user's skin, including an epilating system having a plurality of hair-clamping elements arranged adjacent to each other and rotatable relative to a housing about an axis of rotation, a compression member arranged to exert a compression force on the epilating system along at least a compression line which extends parallel to a main direction of ...