ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,507, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Gillette Co. LLC (Boston).

"Personal care guidance system and magnetic personal guide" was invented by Uwe Jungnickel (Konigstein im Taunus, Germany), Olaf Sorensen (Mainz, Germany) and Lance Ataalla (Hattersheim am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal care guidance system for guiding a user through a personal care routine, the system including a personal care implement having a section at least partially made from a magnetic and/or ferromagnetic material, and a magnetic personal care guide to which the personal care implement is magnetically attachable and detachable. Th...