ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,623, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tangle Teezer Ltd. (London).
"Hair care device" was invented by Shaun Pulfrey (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair care device for use in untangling hair includes a body portion and a plurality of substantially parallel flexible bristles made of soft plastics material and projecting from the body portion. The bristles are arranged such that over at least a part of the area of bristles, some of the bristles are of shorter length. The bristles and the shorter length bristles are interspersed over the at least part of the area of bristles."
The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2023, under...