US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Dec. 2 for "Smart hair dryer accessory detection" (Chinese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,678, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Smart hair dryer accessory detection" was invented by Ming Yao (Suzhou, China), Joshua Thomas Richards (Hassocks, Great Britain), Jack Qin (Suzhou, China) and Terry Tan (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for a hair dryer. A hair drying system can include a plurality of different types of accessories and a hair dryer having an output end configured to supply air. The output end can include an attachment assembly having a retaining mechanism configured to engage each of the plurality of different types of accessories to ret...