Article: Patent No. 7,552,497 Issued on June 30, Assigned to Colgate-Palmolive for Powered Toothbrush (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- John J. Gatzemeyer of Hillsborough, N.J., and Thomas Mintel of Rahway, N.J., have developed a powered toothbrush with rotating sections. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,552,497 on June 30.

The patent has been assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co., New York.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The head of a toothbrush includes a first tuft block ...

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