US Patent Issued to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on July 15 for "System and method for toothbrush monitoring using magneto-inductive coil sensor" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,080, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"System and method for toothbrush monitoring using magneto-inductive coil sensor" was invented by Shan Lin (Jericho, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring and analyzing activities of a user operating an electric tooth brush having an electric motor. The magnetic field induced by motions of the electric motor can be detected by a sensor array to generate signals. The signals are processed to determine a position of the brush head and a roll angle of the brush head. Based on the position ...