US Patent Issued to GC on March 25 for "Method for estimating inflammation area of periodontal pockets" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,622, issued on March 25, was assigned to GC Corp. (Sunto-gun, Japan).

"Method for estimating inflammation area of periodontal pockets" was invented by Naoyuki Togawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Ai Hara (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Shinya Murakami (Suita, Japan) and Takenori Nozaki (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simply predicting the degree of inflammation of periodontal tissue such as an inflamed area (PISA or CAPRS value), and a device (e.g., a DNA chip) used for the method are provided. The method is a method for estimating a periodontal pocket inflammation area by detecting bacterial loads of two or more types of bact...