US Patent Issued to malipano, hecht international on Nov. 4 for "Device, brush, range and method for removing acarine parasites by rotation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,402, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to malipano GmbH (Bayreuth, Germany) and hecht international GmbH (Burgoberbach, Germany).

"Device, brush, range and method for removing acarine parasites by rotation" was invented by Horst Stehr (Bayreuth, Germany) and Isabell Kerstin Stehr (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for moving an acarine parasite which has penetrated the skin of a host, in particular a tick, has a drive, in particular an electromotive drive, which is received in a housing, and an attachment, which has an interface on the drive side and can be rotated about a rotational axis and which contains a numb...