Patents by Inventor Mark Edward Farrell

Mark Edward Farrell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110061189
    Abstract: An oral care implement may include a base portion sized for insertion into an oral cavity and a plurality of flexible, elastomeric elements extending from the base portion, wherein each of the plurality of flexible, elastomeric elements comprises an edge, wherein at least one of the edges comprises a micro edge, and wherein the plurality of flexible, elastomeric elements comprises an element density of less than about 5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Mark Stephen Meadows, Jose Tadeo Vergara de Castro, Mark Edward Farrell, William Ralph Brown, JR., Stephenie Brown, Eric V. Borges, Long Sheng Yu
  • Publication number: 20100281636
    Abstract: A personal care system having personal hygiene products and a display for assisting the user is described. The personal care system can include a personal care product (e.g., an electric toothbrush), an interactive display in data communication with the personal care product. The display provides information associated with a plurality of characteristics of a personal care regimen to the user. The display is in data communication with a network and operable to receive information from the network, and the display is operable to run one or more applications to display the information received from the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Marc Philip Ortins, Alexander Timothy Chenvainu, Mark Edward Farrell, Elizabeth Jane Wenzel, Jose Tadeo Vergara Decastro
  • Publication number: 20080307591
    Abstract: A brush section for use with an electric toothbrush includes a relatively large brush head portion having a generally rectangular shape, although oblong, elliptical and other such shapes having a length to width aspect ration greater than 1 may be employed. The brush head portion is secured to a shaft portion of the brush section that may be configured to couple to a handle section. The handle section may include an electric drive including drive shaft, and the drive shaft may couple to the brush head via a coupling member positioned within the shaft portion. The electric drive may impart a rotary, oscillating rotary-oscillating or other suitable drive motion to the drive shaft that is, in turn, imparted upon the brush head by virtue of the coupling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Mark Edward Farrell, Christopher Charles Blain, Phillip Maurice Braun