ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,996, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Biomet 3i LLC (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).
"Dental membrane" was invented by Kaushal Kumar (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) and Jay Jayashankar (Warsaw, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental membrane that is used with a patient having insufficient bone at a surgical site during a ridge augmentation. The dental membrane includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is cortical bone or formed from artificial bone materials to have characteristics of cortical bone. The second layer is cancellous bone or formed from artificial bone materials to have characteristics of cancellous bone...