US Patent Issued to J. MORITA on Oct. 14 for "Dental treatment apparatus and method of driving the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,306, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to J. MORITA MFG. CORP. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Dental treatment apparatus and method of driving the same" was invented by Kyohei Kato (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazunari Matoba (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental treatment apparatus according to the present invention includes a drive unit that includes a micromotor, a motor driver, and the like, a controller, and a root canal length measurement circuit. The controller controls the cutting tool to be held at a head forward driven in a direction of cutting of an object to be cut. The controller also controls the cutting tool to be reverse driven...