US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 24 for "Hair cutting device and hair cutting system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,755, issued on June 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Hair cutting device and hair cutting system" was invented by Hideki Kasugai (Shiga, Japan) and Kenji Narita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair cutting device according to the present disclosure comprises an optical waveguide. The optical waveguide comprises a light irradiator. The light irradiator irradiates hair protruding from the skin with light to cut the hair. The refractive index of the light irradiator is smaller than the refractive index of the surface of the skin. As a result, options such as the mate...