ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,069, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Electric shaver with mutually different hair-cutting units" was invented by Babu Varghese (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Yannyk Parulian Julian Bourquin (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jonathan Alambra Palero (Waalre, Netherlands), Lu Wang (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Oedilius Johannes Bisschop (Drachten, Netherlands) and Willem Auke Westerhof (Drachten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electric shaver (1) having a main body (3) and a shaving unit (5) coupled to the main body. The shaving unit has three hair-cutting units (9a, 9b, 9c) each having ...