A46B 15/0002
Arrangements for enhancing monitoring or controlling the brushing process
Official title: {Arrangements for enhancing monitoring or controlling the brushing process}
A46B15/0002 (Arrangements for enhancing monitoring or controlling the brushing process) appears on 1,389 US grants and 2,009 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A46B- Granted patents
- 1,389
- Published applications
- 2,009
- Assignees
- 530
- Inventors
- 2,797
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2022 | 94 | 117 |
| 2023 | 66 | 117 |
| 2024 | 82 | 118 |
| 2025 | 86 | 108 |
| 2026 | 66 | 86 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Personal cleansing wand29 Sep 2026US 12,745,836 B2Silicon Valley Innovations, Inc.
- Methods and systems for controlling an electrical toothbrush22 Sep 2026US 12,740,639 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Head for an oral care implement and oral care implement8 Sep 2026US 12,727,662 B2The Procter & Gamble Company
- Pressure sensing system and method for an electric toothbrush8 Sep 2026US 12,727,663 B2Ranir, LLC
- Oral treatment device8 Sep 2026US 12,727,981 B2Dyson Technology Limited
- Oral care mode determination device, oral care mode determination method, and recording medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305810 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Electric toothbrush and method of forming the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294604 A1Quip Nyc Inc.
- Control method of electric toothbrush, and electric toothbrush1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294605 A1Cixi Seago Electronics Co., Ltd
- Automated system for cleaning and inspection of straight hollow cylindrical objects1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298577 A1Griffyn Robotech Pvt. Ltd.
- Image reading device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303745 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dental care apparatus and technique1,566US 5,704,087 A1998
- Electric toothbrush1,257US 5,561,881 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1996
- Ultrasonic toothbrushes employing an acoustic waveguide362US 7,269,873 B2Ultreo, Inc. · 2007
- Light emitting electric toothbrush268US 6,202,242 B1Zephyr Design, Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of a surface259US 6,648,904 B2Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc. · 2003