ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,561, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GC Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Dental composition and dental restorative kit" was invented by Hiroaki Kakinuma (Tokyo), Keita Sato (Tokyo) and Yuna Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the invention is a dental composition of a single-component dental composition including a (meth)acrylate, a photopolymerization initiator, a thiourea derivative, a water miscible organic solvent, and water, wherein the photopolymerization initiator contains a diaryliodonium salt."
The patent was filed on June 29, 2020, under Application No. 17/753,698.
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