ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,900, issued on Jan. 13, 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 having a core structure, the core structure and the connector being unitarily made to form a core-connector unit, and a second component at least partially covering the core structure, wherein a circular collar is unitarily formed with the core-connector unit between the connect...