US Patent Issued on March 25 for "Contact coupled delivery of radiation for dental hard tissue treatment" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,112, issued on March 25.

"Contact coupled delivery of radiation for dental hard tissue treatment" was invented by Charles Holland Dresser (Wayland, Mass.) and Nathan Paul Monty (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a systems and methods for preventative irradiative dental treatment. In accordance with one embodiment, a system and method include using a radiation source to generate a radiation; using an optic disposed to accept the radiation to internally reflect he radiation at a first end; using at least one side of the optic to contact a dental hard tissue; using the optic to couple some of the ra...