ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,078, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Credentis AG (Windisch, Switzerland).
"Personal dental care product for caries treatment" was invented by Michael Hug (Zofingen, Switzerland) and Dominikus Amadeus Lysek (Windisch, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides new dental care products comprising self-assembling peptides that are capable of undergoing self-assembly at a certain pH for use in dental care, e.g. preventing and/or treating a tooth lesion such as a caries lesion, remineralising a tooth surface or increasing smoothness or shine, or for increasing hardness of a tooth surface. The present inven...