{
    "matter": "PAT-3",
    "document_type": "Patent terminology definitions",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "term": "accessory",
            "definition": "\"Accessory\" refers to an apparatus, device, component, system, assembly, mechanism, hardware, software, firmware, circuit, and/or module structured, organized, configured, programmed, designed, arranged, or engineered to provide one or more additional features, functions, attributes, or aspects to another apparatus, device, component, system, assembly, mechanism, hardware, software, firmware, circuit, and/or module which may be considered a primary apparatus or device and the accessory may be considered a secondary apparatus or device."
        },
        {
            "term": "battery",
            "definition": "\"Battery\" refers to a device, apparatus, system, and/or component organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to supply power to one or more electronic components and/or circuits. In certain embodiments, a battery is sized, positioned, and configured to be portable such that the device, apparatus, system, and/or component using the battery can be readily moved to be used or while being used."
        },
        {
            "term": "case",
            "definition": "\"case\" refers to a structure, device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, or subsystem that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to enclose or cover one or more other components, devices, apparatuses and/or systems. In certain embodiments, a case may be a single unitary structure. In other embodiments, a case may include a plurality of parts and/or components."
        },
        {
            "term": "cradle",
            "definition": "\"Cradle\" refers to a structure, device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, or subsystem that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to support and/or secure one or more other components, devices, apparatuses and/or systems. In certain embodiments, a cradle may be a single unitary structure. In other embodiments, a cradle may include a plurality of parts and/or components."
        },
        {
            "term": "exfoliation head",
            "definition": "\"Exfoliation head\" refers to a head organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to exfoliate a part of the body of a person or animal. In certain embodiments, an exfoliation head can be used to exfoliate skin of a person or animal. In general, exfoliation refers to the removal of surface skin cells of a person or animal. Typically, exfoliation removes dead skin cells from the surface of the skin. Exfoliation is one example of an abrasive skin treatment that can be used for skin."
        },
        {
            "term": "extraction head",
            "definition": "\"Extraction head\" refers to a head organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to remove dirt, oil, skin, and other debris from a skin surface of a person or animal."
        },
        {
            "term": "feature profile",
            "definition": "\"Feature profile\" refers to collection of attributes, characteristics, or aspects for a given feature, function, mode, or mode of operation for a system, subsystem, device, or apparatus. Representative examples of attributes, characteristics, or aspects of a feature may include a timing schedule, a schedule for varying performance and/or operation at certain levels, a set of lighting effects, a speed and/or duration for operating a motor or a pump, and the like."
        },
        {
            "term": "filter",
            "definition": "\"Filter\" refers to a structure, device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, or subsystem that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to remove, trap, collect, gather, select between, or prevent passage of one or more elements traveling in, or suspended within, a fluid. In certain embodiments, a filter may be organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered for use over the lifetime of a user or operator or of a system that incorporates the filter. In other embodiments, a filter may be organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to provide effective service for a certain number of uses and/or amount of fluid flow past or through the filter. After these limits are met, the filter may be replaced to restore effective filtration. \r\n\r\nIn certain embodiments, a filter can include a defoamer that serves to mitigate, prevent creation of, and/or buildup of bubbles in a fluid. Alternatively, or in addition, a filter can function as both a filter and a defoamer. In another embodiment, a defoamer may be a structure, device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, or subsystem separate from a filter."
        },
        {
            "term": "frame",
            "definition": "\"Frame\" refers to a structure organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to provide structural support to one or more other devices, structure, components, and/or elements. In general a frame is rigid and provides structural support to one or more other components coupled to, integrated with, interfacing with, or connected to the frame. A frame may be a unitary component or a frame may be made up of a plurality of components."
        },
        {
            "term": "handheld skin treatment device",
            "definition": "\"handheld skin treatment device\" refers to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to enable a user to perform a skin treatment procedure on the skin of a person or animal. In certain embodiments, the handheld skin treatment device is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to be held in the hand of a user or operator."
        },
        {
            "term": "head",
            "definition": "\"Head\" refers to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure, organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to have a more prominent role in a particular feature, design, structure, function, operation, process, method, and/or procedure for a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure the includes, is coupled to, or interfaces with the head. In certain embodiments, the head may sit at the top or in another prominent position when interfacing with and/or coupled to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure."
        },
        {
            "term": "indicator type",
            "definition": "\"Indicator type\" refers to a type of indicator. Examples of indicator types include, but are not limited to, electronic polarity, magnetic polarity, electromagnetic polarity, position, optical, sonar, magnetic, electronic, thermal, and the like."
        },
        {
            "term": "interconnect",
            "definition": "“Interconnect” refers to a structure configured to join at least two other structures. In one embodiment, the interconnect may be a mechanical structure that may physically connect one structure to another structure. In other embodiments, an interconnect may be embodied as a fastener that enables permanent or temporary joining of one structure to another structure. In still other embodiments, an interconnect may be embodied as a joint or hinge configured to enable one or both structured joined by the interconnect to move relative to each other while remaining joined. In one embodiment, the interconnect may be configured to convey fluid and/or an electric signal between the at least two other structures. For example, the interconnect may comprise a channel or tube configured to convey air between a first opening and a second opening in the channel or tube. Examples of an interconnect include, but are not limited to, a pipe, a tunnel, a chamber a channel, or the like. Other examples of an interconnect include, but are not limited to, solid material that can be additively manufactured between two structures, a magnet, a snap, a hook and loop system, a spring, a tether, or the like."
        },
        {
            "term": "magnet sensor",
            "definition": "\"Magnet sensor\" refers to a sensor configured to sense one or more of a presence of a magnetic field, a magnitude of a magnetic field, and a polarity of a magnetic field. In certain embodiments, a magnet sensor can include an electronic component designed, configured, and/or engineered to serve as a magnet sensor."
        },
        {
            "term": "motor",
            "definition": "\"Motor\" refers to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure, that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to convert energy forms into mechanical energy. (Search \"motor\" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2022. Web. Accessed 30 March 2022. Modified.) Examples of motors include, but are not limited to, electric motors, internal combustion chamber motors, and the like."
        },
        {
            "term": "polarity",
            "definition": "\"Polarity\" refers to an orientation of a magnetic field in a natural magnet or electromagnet."
        },
        {
            "term": "post",
            "definition": "\"Post\" refers to a structure designed, configured, and/or engineered to support another object connected to and/or resting upon the post. The other object may couple to the post by way of a friction fit. In certain embodiments, a post may be a cylindrical structure that is thinner than structures connected or coupled to the post."
        },
        {
            "term": "power button assembly",
            "definition": "\"Power button assembly\" refers to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure, organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to activate and/or deactivate a lower level for a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure the includes, is coupled to, or interfaces with the power button assembly. In certain embodiments, the power button assembly may include a single unitary structure. In other embodiments, the power button assembly may include a plurality of structures and/or components that cooperate to provide the functionality of the power button assembly. For example, one or more parts of a power button assembly may engage with a body and may engage with a switch of an electrical circuit to change a power level from no power to one or more power levels in a set of power levels."
        },
        {
            "term": "power level",
            "definition": "\"Power level\" refers to an amount of power in the form of current supplied by a power supply to one or more components, apparatuses, and/or devices of a system, subsystem, apparatus, and/or device. In certain embodiments, a device or system may operate at one or more power levels within a set of power levels. Furthermore in certain embodiments, a power level may include a set of power levels in which no power is one of the power levels."
        },
        {
            "term": "pump",
            "definition": "\"Pump\" refers to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit, or structure, that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to move a fluid within a conduit. The pump may move the fluid by driving the fluid through the conduit or by pulling the fluid through the conduit."
        },
        {
            "term": "shell",
            "definition": "\"Shell\" refers to a structure organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to at least partially cover or surround another structure. In certain embodiments, the shell can be designed to protect structures within a concave part of the shell from exposure to damaging elements such as liquids."
        },
        {
            "term": "skin treatment head",
            "definition": "\"Skin treatment head\" refers to a head that is organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to be used for a skin treatment by a user or operator."
        },
        {
            "term": "skin treatment procedure",
            "definition": "\"Skin treatment procedure\" or \"skincare procedure\" refers to any process, method, procedure, or set of steps designed to provide one or more of therapeutic, restorative, remedial, curative, ameliorative, and/or reparative effects to at least part of skin of a person or animal."
        },
        {
            "term": "suction pump",
            "definition": "\"Suction pump\" refers to a pump configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to suck one or more of solids, liquids, and gases from a source and store the suctioned material in a destination."
        },
        {
            "term": "toning head",
            "definition": "\"Toning head\" refers to a head organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to facilitate toning a part of the body of a person or animal. In certain embodiments, a toning head can be used to tone skin of a person or animal."
        },
        {
            "term": "user input",
            "definition": "\"User input\" refers to any signal, action, or other indication from a user that provides direction, instruction(s), and/or information a user wants to provide to a device, apparatus, member, component, system, assembly, module, subsystem, circuit. In certain embodiments, user input can include input data provided by a user or operator. In certain embodiments, a user may provide user input using an input device such as a touchscreen, a mouse, a switch, a lever or the like. A variety of signals, indicators, indications, gestures, movements, touches, keystrokes, or the like can serve as user input."
        }
    ]
}