ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,670, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Gillette Co. LLC (Boston).

"Handle for a personal care implement and personal care implement" was invented by Uwe Jungnickel (Konigstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handle for a personal care implement includes a connector for repeatedly attaching and detaching a head to and from the handle. The handle has a longitudinal extension extending between a proximal end closest to the head and a distal end opposite to the proximal end, the handle further having a core structure, the core structure and the connector being unitarily made to form a core-connector unit. A second component ...