ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,780, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Hair care appliance" was invented by Colby Jackson Higgins (Randolph, Mass.), Adam Udy (Eastbourne, Great Britain) and Stephen Murphy (Watertown, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair care appliance is provided and includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axi...