US Patent Issued to DENTAL MILLING SOLUTIONS on April 1 for "Dental prosthetic assemblies and coupling systems" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,061, issued on April 1, was assigned to DENTAL MILLING SOLUTIONS LLC (St. Louis).

"Dental prosthetic assemblies and coupling systems" was invented by Scott C. Atkin (Phoenix) and Jon Barnes (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental prosthetic assembly includes an additively manufactured semi-flexible reinforcement bar and a polymer and glass outer layer chemically luted to the semi-reinforcement bar outside of the reinforcement bar. The semi-flexible reinforcement bar forms an interior of the dental prosthetic assembly and at least a portion of the polymer and glass outer layer forms teeth of the dental prosthetic as...