ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,458, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ANTHOGYR (Sallanches, France).
"Self-tapping dental implant" was invented by Herve Richard (Notre Dame de Bellecombe, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental implant includes an implant body extending along a longitudinal axis between a crown end and an apical end, the implant body having a core along which a helical thread extends with at least one thread, the core being tapered towards the apical end on at least one section of the length of the dental implant. At least two tapping grooves are arranged in the thread. The grooves interrupt the thread, so that the thread includes a series...