ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,697, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ascentcare Dental Products Inc. (Grand Haven, Mich.).
"Dental instrument assemblies and components for use within dental instrument assemblies" was invented by Austin Ritter (Grand Haven, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dental instrument assemblies (e.g., mouth pieces, bite blocks, vacuum dental mirrors, illuminated dental mirrors, illuminated dental wedges, trans-illumination dental instrument, illuminated dental bite blocks, etc.) are provided. The dental instrument assemblies may be adapted to be periodically sterilized. The dental instrument assemblies may include a magnetically energe...