US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on April 22 for "Talking dental glove" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,896, issued on April 22, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Talking dental glove" was invented by Ayman Mansour Al-Jumaia (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Abdul-Hakeem Alomari (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a talking glove to aid communication between a medical practitioner and a patient while the patient is undergoing a dental/medical treatment. The talking glove may be a dental glove worn by the patient and/or a dental practitioner and includes a plurality of contact sensors, where each contact sensor is located on a different finger positio...