ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,645, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GRS Guide System Inc. (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

"Positioning and installing surgical drilling devices and related devices and systems" was invented by Mark Bennett Jamison (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, dental drill guides can include a body defining an outer surface and an interior hole for receiving and positioning a dental drill; a first end of the body defining a tapered lead-in portion of the outer surface; a second end of the body opposite the first end defining at least one lip feature configured to be gripped by a handling tool; an outer circumferentially fo...